Stratigraphic framework of upper carboniferous (Moscovian-Kasimovian) strata in Bünsow Land, central Spitsbergen: Palaeogeographic implications

Norsk Geologisk Tidsskrift

Volumn 76, Issue 3, 1996, Pages 169-185

  Pickard, Neil A H ^a   Eilertsen, Flemming ^a   Hanken, Nils Martin ^a   Johansen, Tony A ^a   Lønøy, Arve ^b   Nakrem, Hans Arne ^c   Nilsson, Inger ^d   Samuelsberg, Tommy J ^a   Somerville, Ian D ^e  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TROMSØ   (Norway)

^b STATOIL   (Norway)

^c UNIVERSITY OF OSLO   (Norway)

^d Saga Petroleum as   (Norway)

^e UNIVERSITY COLLEGE DUBLIN   (Ireland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CARBONIFEROUS; PALAEOGEOGRAPHY; STRATIGRAPHY;

SVALBARD, SPITSBERGEN, BUNSOW LAND;

EID: 0030425813     PISSN: 0029196X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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