Basin evolution in southern East Greenland: An outcrop analog for Cretaceous-Paleogene basins on the North Atlantic volcanic margins

AAPG Bulletin

Volumn 83, Issue 8, 1999, Pages 1236-1261

  Larsen, Michael ^a   Hamberg, Lars ^b   Olaussen, Snorre ^c   Nørgaard Pedersen, Niels ^d   Stemmerik, Lars ^a  

^a GEOLOGICAL SURVEY OF DENMARK AND GREENLAND   (Denmark)

^b DONG Energy AS   (Denmark)

^c Saga Petroleum as   (Norway)

^d GEOMAR HELMHOLTZ CENTRE FOR OCEAN RESEARCH KIEL   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CRETACEOUS-PALEOGENE BASIN; SOUTHERN EAST GREENLAND;

GEOMORPHOLOGY; HYDROCARBONS; OFFSHORE DRILLING; OFFSHORE PETROLEUM PROSPECTING; PETROLOGY; SEA LEVEL; SEDIMENTARY ROCKS; STRATIGRAPHY; TECTONICS;

PETROLEUM GEOLOGY;

BASIN EVOLUTION; SEDIMENTARY BASIN; TECTONIC EVOLUTION;

GREENLAND;

EID: 0033405360     PISSN: 01491423     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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