The syn-volcanic Naajaat lake, Paleocene of West Greenland

Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology

Volumn 140, Issue 1-4, 1998, Pages 271-287

  Pedersen, Gunver Krarup ^a   Larsen, Lotte Melchior ^b,d   Pedersen, Asger Ken ^c,d   Hjortkjær, Birgitte Ferré ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COPENHAGEN   (Denmark)

^b GEOLOGICAL SURVEY OF DENMARK AND GREENLAND   (Denmark)

^c UNIVERSITY OF COPENHAGEN   (Denmark)

^d DANISH LITHOSPHERE CENTRE   (Denmark)

Author keywords

Palaeolimnology; Paleocene; Sediments; Syn volcanic lake; West Greenland

Indexed keywords

LAKE; PALEOCENE; VOLCANISM;

GREENLAND;

EID: 0031869888     PISSN: 00310182     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0031-0182(98)00034-0     Document Type: Conference Paper

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