Cambro-Ordovician stratigraphy of Bjornoya and North Greenland: Constraints on tectonic models for the Arctic Caledonides and the Tertiary opening of the Greenland Sea

Journal of the Geological Society

Volumn 157, Issue 2, 2000, Pages 459-470

  Smith, M Paul ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BIRMINGHAM   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Caledonides; Greenland; Ordovician; Svalbard; Tectonics

Indexed keywords

CALEDONIAN OROGENY; CAMBRIAN; ORDOVICIAN; STRATIGRAPHY; TECTONICS;

GREENLAND; NORWAY;

EID: 0034022121     PISSN: 00167649     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1144/jgs.157.2.459     Document Type: Article

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