A giant sand injection complex: The upper Jurassic Hareelv formation of East Greenland

Geologia Croatica

Volumn 56, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 69-81

  Surlyk, Finn ^a   Noe Nygaard, Nanna ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COPENHAGEN   (Denmark)

Author keywords

East Greenland; Hareelv formation; Intrusion and injection; Sandstone dykes and sills; Sediment remobilisation; Upper Jurassic

Indexed keywords

EID: 33645404086     PISSN: 1330030X     EISSN: 13334875     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4154/GC.2003.04     Document Type: Article

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