Tracking thermal history in East Greenland: An overview

Global and Planetary Change

Volumn 24, Issue 3-4, 2000, Pages 303-309

  Hansen, Kirsten ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COPENHAGEN   (Denmark)

Author keywords

East Greenland; Fission track; Neogene exhumation; Thermal history

Indexed keywords

APATITE; DEPOSITIONAL SEQUENCE; EXHUMATION; FISSION TRACK DATING; THERMAL EVOLUTION; TRACKING;

GREENLAND;

EID: 0034045840     PISSN: 09218181     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0921-8181(00)00014-X     Document Type: Article

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