Neogene uplift and tectonics around the North Atlantic: Overview

Global and Planetary Change

Volumn 24, Issue 3-4, 2000, Pages 165-173

  Japsen, Peter ^a   Chalmers, James A ^a  

^a GEOLOGICAL SURVEY OF DENMARK AND GREENLAND   (Denmark)

Author keywords

Neogene; North Atlantic; Subsidence; Uplifts

Indexed keywords

EMPLACEMENT; NEOGENE; TECTONICS; UPLIFT;

ATLANTIC OCEAN;

EID: 0034120988     PISSN: 09218181     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0921-8181(00)00006-0     Document Type: Article

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