The world's biggest relay ramp: Hold With Hope, NE Greenland

Journal of Structural Geology

Volumn 22, Issue 7, 2000, Pages 843-850

  Peacock, D C P ^a   Price, S P ^b   Whitham, A G ^b   Pickles, C S ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LEEDS   (United Kingdom)

^b W Bldg Huntingdon Road CB3 0DJ   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FAULT ZONES; RELAY RAMPS;

DEFORMATION; STRESSES;

STRUCTURAL GEOLOGY;

DEFORMATION; FAULT GEOMETRY; MOHO; STRUCTURAL GEOLOGY;

GREENLAND;

EID: 0034121164     PISSN: 01918141     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0191-8141(00)00012-2     Document Type: Article

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