A late orogenic extensional origin for the infracrustal gneiss domes of the East Greenland Caledonides (72-74°N)

Tectonophysics

Volumn 285, Issue 3-4, 1998, Pages 353-369

  Andresen, Arild ^a   Hartz, Ebbe H ^a   Vold, Jon ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OSLO   (Norway)

Author keywords

Caledonides; Collapse; East Greenland; Exhumation; Extension; P T estimates

Indexed keywords

BASEMENT DOME; EXTENSIONAL TECTONICS;

GREENLAND, CALEDONIDES;

EID: 0031834273     PISSN: 00401951     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0040-1951(97)00278-3     Document Type: Article

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