Eocene compressive deformation in Arctic Canada, North Greenland and Svalbard and its plate tectonic causes

Polarforschung

Volumn 68, Issue 1-3, 2000, Pages 121-124

  Tessensohn, Franz ^a   Piepjohn, Karsten ^b  

^a FEDERAL INSTITUTE FOR GEOSCIENCES AND NATURAL RESOURCES BGR   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MÜNSTER   (Germany)

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