Crustal thickening in an extensional regime: Application to the mid-Norwegian Vøring margin

Tectonophysics

Volumn 387, Issue 1-4, 2004, Pages 217-228

  van Wijk, J W ^a,b   van der Meer, R ^a   Cloetingh, S A P L ^a  

^a VU UNIVERSITY AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Lithosphere extension; Norwegian margin; Numerical model; Passive margin

Indexed keywords

CRUSTAL THICKENING; EXTENSIONAL TECTONICS; MAASTRICHTIAN; NUMERICAL MODEL; PALEOCENE; RIFTING;

ARCTIC OCEAN; NORWEGIAN SEA; OCEANIC REGIONS; VORING MARGIN; WORLD;

EID: 11144272561     PISSN: 00401951     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.tecto.2004.07.049     Document Type: Article

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