Early tertiary Eurekan palaeostresses in the Eastern Sverdrup Basin (Ellesmere and Axel Heiberg Island, Canadian Arctic Islands)

Tectonophysics

Volumn 255, Issue 3-4 SPEC. ISS., 1996, Pages 229-241

  Lepvrier, C ^a   Van Berkel, J T ^b   Schwerdtner, W M ^c  

^a CNRS   (France)

^b Logica BV   (Netherlands)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CRETACEOUS; EUREKAN OROGENY; PALAEOSTRESS; PLATE MOTION; TERTIARY;

CANADA, NORTHWEST TERRITORIES, SVERDRUP BASIN;

EID: 0030455210     PISSN: 00401951     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/0040-1951(95)00139-5     Document Type: Article

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