Canada Basin, Arctic Ocean: Evidence against a rotational origin

Tectonics

Volumn 16, Issue 3, 1997, Pages 363-387

  Lane, Larry S ^a  

^a GEOLOGICAL SURVEY OF CANADA   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BASIN EVOLUTION; BLOCK ROTATION; CRETACEOUS; PLATE TECTONICS; ROTATION; TECTONIC EVOLUTION; TECTONIC RECONSTRUCTION;

ARCTIC OCEAN, CANADA BASIN;

EID: 0031439314     PISSN: 02787407     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/97TC00432     Document Type: Article

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