Mantle plumes and sequence stratigraphy; Late Maastrichtian-Early Paleocene of West Greenland

Bulletin of the Geological Society of Denmark

Volumn 48, Issue 2, 2001, Pages 189-207

  Dam, Gregers ^a,b   Nøhr Hansen, Henrik ^a  

^a GEOLOGICAL SURVEY OF DENMARK AND GREENLAND   (Denmark)

^b DONG Energy AS   (Denmark)

Author keywords

Late maastrichtian early paleocene; Mantle plumes; Sequence stratigraphy; West Greenland

Indexed keywords

EID: 0141665419     PISSN: 00116297     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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