Greenland - Norway separation: A geodynamic model for the North Atlantic

Norsk Geologisk Tidsskrift

Volumn 82, Issue 4, 2002, Pages 281-298

  Mosar, Jon ^a,b   Eide, Elizabeth A ^b   Osmundsen, Per Terje ^b   Sommaruga, Anna ^b   Torsvik, Trond H ^b,c  

^a Dept of Geosci Geol/Paleontology   (Switzerland)

^b GEOLOGICAL SURVEY OF NORWAY   (Norway)

^c NORWEGIAN UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Norway)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CARBONIFEROUS; CRETACEOUS; DIP-SLIP FAULT; FAULTING; GEODYNAMICS; PERMIAN; PLATE MOTION; RIFTING;

ARCTIC; ATLANTIC OCEAN; ATLANTIC OCEAN (NORTH); EURASIA; EUROPE; GREENLAND; NORTHERN EUROPE; NORWAY; SCANDINAVIA; SVALBARD AND JAN MAYEN;

EID: 0043090136     PISSN: 0029196X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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