Slope tectonics-comparisons and contrasts of structural styles of salt and shale tectonics of the northern gulf of Mexico with shale tectonics of offshore Nigeria in gulf of guinea

Geophysical Monograph Series

Volumn 115, Issue , 2000, Pages 151-172

  Wu, Shengyu ^a   Bally, Albert W ^b  

^a TOTAL Exploration Production USA Inc   (United States)

^b RICE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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EID: 84979078644     PISSN: 00658448     EISSN: 23288779     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1029/GM115p0151     Document Type: Chapter

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