Displacement partitioning and arc-parallel extension: Example from the Southeastern caribbean plate margin

Geophysical Monograph Series

Volumn 96, Issue , 1996, Pages 113-118

  Avé Lallemant, Hans G ^a  

^a RICE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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EID: 85040218501     PISSN: 00658448     EISSN: 23288779     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1029/GM096p0113     Document Type: Chapter

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