Early palaeozoic basin development of North Greenland -part of the Franklinian Basin

Polarforschung

Volumn 68, Issue 1-3, 2000, Pages 131-140

  Henriksen, Niels ^a   Higgins, Anthony K ^a  

^a GEOLOGICAL SURVEY OF DENMARK AND GREENLAND   (Denmark)

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