Drift of Greenland and correlation of tertiary tectonic events in the West Spitsbergen and Eurekan fold-thrust belts

Polarforschung

Volumn 68, Issue 1-3, 2000, Pages 93-100

  Lepvrier, Claude ^a  

^a EUROPEAN SPACE AGENCY   (France)

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