Stratigraphy and sedimentology of a basement-onlapping shallow marine sandstone succession, the Charcot Bugt Formation, Middle-Upper Jurassic, East Greenland

Geological Survey of Denmark and Greenland Bulletin

Volumn , Issue 1, 2003, Pages 893-930

  Larsen, Michael ^a   Piasecki, Stefan ^a   Surlyk, Finn ^b  

^a GEOLOGICAL SURVEY OF DENMARK AND GREENLAND   (Denmark)

^b UNIVERSITY OF COPENHAGEN   (Denmark)

Author keywords

Basement onlap; Bathonian Oxfordian; Biostratigraphy; Charcot Bugt Formation; Clinoform unit; Dinoflagellates; East Greenland; Kap Leslie Formation; Milne Land; Sedimentology; Sequence stratigraphy; Shallow marine

Indexed keywords

JURASSIC; SANDSTONE; SEDIMENTOLOGY; SEQUENCE STRATIGRAPHY; STRATIGRAPHIC CORRELATION;

ARCTIC; EAST GREENLAND; GREENLAND;

EID: 1842678290     PISSN: 16048156     EISSN: 19044666     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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