Upper Jurassic - Lower Cretaceous of the Danish Central Graben: Structural framework and nomenclature

Geological Survey of Denmark and Greenland Bulletin

Volumn , Issue 1, 2003, Pages 233-246

  Japsen, Peter ^a   Britze, Peter ^a   Andersen, Claus ^a  

^a GEOLOGICAL SURVEY OF DENMARK AND GREENLAND   (Denmark)

Author keywords

Danish Central Graben; Isochore maps; Lower Cretaceous; North Sea; Structural nomenclature; Structure contour maps; Upper Jurassic

Indexed keywords

CRETACEOUS; GRABEN; JURASSIC; NOMENCLATURE; STRUCTURAL GEOLOGY; TECTONICS;

ATLANTIC OCEAN; DANISH CENTRAL TROUGH; NORTH SEA;

EID: 1842728616     PISSN: 16048156     EISSN: 19044666     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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