The Jurassic of East Greenland: A sedimentary record of thermal subsidence, onset and culmination of rifting

Geological Survey of Denmark and Greenland Bulletin

Volumn , Issue 1, 2003, Pages 659-722

  Surlyk, Finn ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COPENHAGEN   (Denmark)

Author keywords

Basin evolution; East Greenland; Jurassic; Onshore Moray Firth; Pre rift megasequence; Regional correlation comparison; Sequence stratigraphy; Syn rift megasequence

Indexed keywords

BASIN EVOLUTION; EXTENSIONAL TECTONICS; JURASSIC; RIFTING; SEDIMENTATION;

ARCTIC; EAST GREENLAND; GREENLAND;

EID: 1842786507     PISSN: 16048156     EISSN: 19044666     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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