Southwestern Barents Sea margin: late Mesozoic sedimentary basins and crustal extension

Tectonophysics

Volumn 293, Issue 1-2, 1998, Pages 21-44

  Breivik, Asbjørn Johan ^a   Faleide, Jan Inge ^a   Gudlaugsson, Steinar Thor ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OSLO   (Norway)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CONTINENTAL MARGIN; EXTENSION; MESOZOIC; RIFT ZONE; SEDIMENTARY BASIN; TECTONICS;

BARENTS SEA;

EID: 0031764848     PISSN: 00401951     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0040-1951(98)00073-0     Document Type: Article

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