North Atlantic marine rifting in the Early Triassic: New evidence from East Greenland

Journal of the Geological Society

Volumn 161, Issue 4, 2004, Pages 583-592

  Seidler, Lars ^a   Steel, Ron J ^b   Stemmerik, Lars ^c   Surlyk, Finn ^d  

^a EXXONMOBIL UPSTREAM RESEARCH COMPANY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WYOMING   (United States)

^c GEOLOGICAL SURVEY OF DENMARK AND GREENLAND   (Denmark)

^d UNIVERSITY OF COPENHAGEN   (Denmark)

Author keywords

Early Triassic; East Greenland; Rifting

Indexed keywords

BASIN EVOLUTION; DEPOSITIONAL ENVIRONMENT; OCEAN BASIN; OCEANIC CRUST; RIFTING; TRIASSIC;

ATLANTIC OCEAN; ATLANTIC OCEAN (NORTH);

EID: 3142743434     PISSN: 00167649     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1144/0016-764903-063     Document Type: Article

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