The Jameson Land basin (east Greenland): A fission track study of the tectonic and thermal evolution in the Cenozoic North Atlantic spreading regime

Tectonophysics

Volumn 331, Issue 3, 2001, Pages 307-339

  Hansen, Kirsten ^a   Bergman, Steven C ^b,c,d   Henk, Bo ^b  

^a Institute for Petrology   (Denmark)

^b BP EXPLORATION   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT DALLAS   (United States)

^d SOUTHERN METHODIST UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Exhumation; Greenland; Thermal history

Indexed keywords

CENOZOIC; EXHUMATION; FISSION TRACK DATING; MINERALIZATION; TECTONIC EVOLUTION; THERMAL EVOLUTION;

GREENLAND;

EID: 0035020987     PISSN: 00401951     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0040-1951(00)00285-7     Document Type: Article

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