Late Carboniferous-Permian tectonics and magmatic activity in the Skagerrak, Kattegat and the North Sea

Geological Society Special Publication

Volumn 223, Issue , 2004, Pages 157-176

  Heeremans, Michel ^a   Faleide, Jan Inge ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OSLO   (Norway)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CARBONIFEROUS; EXTENSIONAL TECTONICS; MAGMATISM; PERMIAN; RIFTING;

ATLANTIC OCEAN; EURASIA; EUROPE; KATTEGAT; NORTH SEA; NORTHERN EUROPE; SCANDINAVIA; SKAGERRAK;

CARBONIFEROUS;

EID: 3343004575     PISSN: 03058719     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1144/GSL.SP.2004.223.01.07     Document Type: Article

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