In search of the Wegener Fault: Re-evaluation of strike-slip displacements along and bordering Nares Strait

Polarforschung

Volumn 74, Issue 1-3, 2004, Pages 129-160

  Christopher Harrison, J ^a  

^a GEOLOGICAL SURVEY OF CANADA   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COLLISION ZONE; CONTINENTAL MARGIN; DEFORMATION; EOCENE; OROGENY; PALEOCENE; PLATE BOUNDARY; PLATE MOTION; SEAFLOOR SPREADING; STRIKE-SLIP FAULT;

ARCTIC; ARCTIC OCEAN; AXEL HEIBERG ISLAND; BACHE PENINSULA; BAFFIN BAY [ARCTIC OCEAN]; CANADA; DEVON ISLAND; ELLESMERE ISLAND; GREENLAND; INGLEFIELD LAND; JONES SOUND; KANE BASIN; KENNEDY CHANNEL; LANCASTER SOUND; LINCOLN SEA; NARES STRAIT; NORTH AMERICA; NUNAVUT; ROBESON CHANNEL; SMITH SOUND; SVERDRUP BASIN;

EID: 33846541434     PISSN: 00322490     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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