The Eurekan deformation of North and Eastern North Greenland

Polarforschung

Volumn 69, Issue 1-3, 1999, Pages 95-106

  Lyberis, Nikos ^a   Manby, Geoff ^b  

^a SORBONNE UNIVERSITÉ   (France)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GREENWICH   (United Kingdom)

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