East Greenland and Faroe-Shetland sediment provenance and Palaeogene sand dispersal systems

Geological Survey of Denmark and Greenland Bulletin

Volumn , Issue 10, 2006, Pages 29-32

  Larsen, Michael ^a,c   Knudsen, Christian ^a   Frei, Dirk ^a   Frei, Martina ^a   Rasmussen, Thomas ^a   Whitham, Andrew G ^b  

^a GEOLOGICAL SURVEY OF DENMARK AND GREENLAND   (Denmark)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

^c DONG Energy AS   (Denmark)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BASIN EVOLUTION; DISPERSAL; PALEOGENE; PROVENANCE; SAND; SEDIMENT TRANSPORT;

ARCTIC; ATLANTIC OCEAN; EAST GREENLAND; FAROE-SHETLAND CHANNEL; GREENLAND;

EID: 33846842449     PISSN: 16048156     EISSN: 19044666     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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