Denudation and uplift history of the Jameson Land basin, East Greenland - Constrained from maturity and apatite fission track data

Global and Planetary Change

Volumn 24, Issue 3-4, 2000, Pages 275-301

  Mathiesen, Anders ^a   Bidstrup, Torben ^a   Christiansen, Flemming G ^a  

^a GEOLOGICAL SURVEY OF DENMARK AND GREENLAND   (Denmark)

Author keywords

Basin modelling; East Greenland; Erosion; Fission track modelling; Jameson Land; Uplift

Indexed keywords

APATITE; DENUDATION; FISSION TRACK DATING; LANDSCAPE EVOLUTION; UPLIFT;

GREENLAND;

EID: 0034040866     PISSN: 09218181     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0921-8181(00)00013-8     Document Type: Article

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