Pull-apart development at overlapping fault tips: Oblique rifting of a Cenozoic continental margin, northern Mergui Basin, Andaman Sea
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عنوان ژورنال: Geosphere
سال: 2013
ISSN: 1553-040X
DOI: 10.1130/ges00926.1