Understanding the kinematics of salt-bearing passive margins: A critical test of competing hypotheses for the origin of the Albian Gap, Santos Basin, offshore Brazil

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  2015

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  Geological Society of America Bulletin

• Publication date

  2015-11-01

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  Geology

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  DOI 10.1130/B31290.1
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