A post mid-Cretaceous North Sea model

Bulletin of the Geological Society of Denmark

Volumn 49, Issue 2, 2002, Pages 187-204

  Nielsen, Søren B ^a  

^a AARHUS UNIVERSITY   (Denmark)

Author keywords

Basin inversion; Erosion; Lithosphere; Modelling; Neogene uplift; North sea basin

Indexed keywords

EID: 0011747421     PISSN: 00116297     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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