Eurekan transpressive deformation in the Wandel Hav Mobile Belt (northeast Greenland)

Tectonics

Volumn 22, Issue 4, 2003, Pages

  von Gosen, W ^a   Piepjohn, K ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ERLANGEN NUREMBERG   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MÜNSTER   (Germany)

Author keywords

Arctic; Eurekan deformation; North Greenland; Structure; Tertiary; Transpression

Indexed keywords

CENOZOIC; CRUSTAL DEFORMATION; FAULT ZONE; KINEMATICS; MOBILE BELT; PLATE MOTION; PLATE TECTONICS; STRIKE-SLIP FAULT; TECTONOPHYSICS; TRANSPRESSION;

GREENLAND; WANDEL HAV MOBILE BELT;

EID: 0344287505     PISSN: 02787407     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2001TC901040     Document Type: Article

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