Mid-tertiary rifting and magmatism in the Traill Ø region, East Greenland

Journal of the Geological Society

Volumn 154, Issue 3, 1997, Pages 419-434

  Price, Simon ^a   Brodie, James ^b   Whitham, Andrew ^a   Kent, Ray ^c  

^a Cambridge Arctic Shelf Programme   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BRISTOL   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF LEICESTER   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

East Greenland; Magmatism; Structural geology; Tectonics; Tertiary

Indexed keywords

EXTENSIONAL TECTONICS; MAGMATISM; NORMAL FAULT; RIFTING; TERTIARY;

GREENLAND, TRAILL O;

EID: 0030808578     PISSN: 00167649     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1144/gsjgs.154.3.0419     Document Type: Article

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