Relative timing of CAMP, rifting, continental breakup, and basin inversion: Tectonic significance

Geophysical Monograph Series

Volumn 136, Issue , 2003, Pages 33-59

  Schlische, Roy W ^a   Withjack, Martha Oliver ^a   Olsen, Paul E ^b  

^a RUTGERS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences   (United States)

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EID: 85006950791     PISSN: 00658448     EISSN: 23288779     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1029/136GM03     Document Type: Chapter

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