Timing and structural relations of regional zeolite zones in basalts of the East Greenland continental margin

Geology

Volumn 25, Issue 9, 1997, Pages 803-806

  Neuhoff, Philip S ^a   Watt, W Stuart ^b,c   Bird, Dennis K ^a   Pedersen, Asger K ^c,d  

^a STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b GEOLOGICAL SURVEY OF DENMARK AND GREENLAND   (Denmark)

^c DANISH LITHOSPHERE CENTRE   (Denmark)

^d UNIVERSITY OF COPENHAGEN   (Denmark)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BASALT; CLAY ALTERATION; DEFORMATION; HEAT TRANSFER; HYDRAULIC STRUCTURES; LEVEES; PILES; STRATIGRAPHY; TIMING CIRCUITS;

COASTAL DIKES; CONTINENTAL MARGIN; FLOOD BASALT; GREENLAND; HYDROTHERMAL ALTERATIONS; LAVA FLOWS; MAFIC DIKES; ZEOLITE MINERALS;

ZEOLITES;

CONTINENTAL MARGIN; DEFORMATION; DIKE SWARM; EMPLACEMENT; FAULT; FLOOD BASALT; HYDROTHERMAL ALTERATION; LAVA FLOW; METAMORPHISM; VOLCANISM; ZEOLITE; HEAT FLOW; TERTIARY;

ARCTIC; EAST GREENLAND; GREENLAND;

EID: 0031446561     PISSN: 00917613     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1130/0091-7613(1997)025<0803:TASROR>2.3.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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