Sedimentary response to mantle plumes: Implications from Paleocene onshore successions, West and East Greenland

Geology

Volumn 26, Issue 3, 1998, Pages 207-210

  Dam, Gregers ^a   Larsen, Michael ^a   Sønderholm, Martin ^a  

^a GEOLOGICAL SURVEY OF DENMARK AND GREENLAND   (Denmark)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BASALT; FLOODS; SEDIMENTOLOGY; THERMAL PLUMES;

FLOOD BASALT; MANTLE PLUME; NORTH ATLANTIC; PALEOCENE; SEDIMENTARY RESPONSE; SEQUENCE OF EVENTS; UPPER CRETACEOUS; WEST GREENLAND;

SEDIMENTARY ROCKS;

FAULTING; FLOOD BASALT; MANTLE PLUME; PALEOCENE; SEDIMENTARY BASIN; SUBSIDENCE; SUCCESSION; TERTIARY; UPLIFT; VOLCANIC ERUPTION; PALAEOCENE; PALAEOGEOGRAPHY; SEDIMENTATION;

ARCTIC; ATLANTIC OCEAN; ATLANTIC OCEAN (NORTH); EAST GREENLAND; GREENLAND; WEST GREENLAND;

EID: 0031869146     PISSN: 00917613     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1130/0091-7613(1998)026<0207:SRTMPI>2.3.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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