Structural and magmatic segmentation of the Tertiary East Greenland Volcanic Rifted Margin

Geological Society Special Publication

Volumn 164, Issue , 2000, Pages 313-338

  Karson, Jeffrey A ^a   Brooks, C Kent ^b  

^a DUKE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b DANISH LITHOSPHERE CENTRE   (Denmark)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CONTINENTAL MARGIN; DIKE SWARM; FLEXURE; FLOOD BASALT; IGNEOUS INTRUSION; PLUTON; RIFT ZONE; VOLCANISM;

GREENLAND;

EID: 0034032327     PISSN: 03058719     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1144/GSL.SP.1999.164.01.15     Document Type: Article

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