Faults and fractures in central West Greenland: Onshore expression of continental break-up and sea-floor spreading in the Labrador - Baffin Bay Sea

Geological Survey of Denmark and Greenland Bulletin

Volumn , Issue 11, 2006, Pages 185-204

  Wilson, Robert W ^a   Klint, Knud Erik S ^b   van Gool, Jeroen A M ^b   McCaffrey, Kenneth J W ^a   Holdsworth, Robert E ^a   Chalmers, James A ^b  

^a DURHAM UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b GEOLOGICAL SURVEY OF DENMARK AND GREENLAND   (Denmark)

Author keywords

Basement reactivation; Extensional tectonics; Faults and fractures; Sedimentary basins; West Greenland; Wrench systems

Indexed keywords

CONTINENTAL BREAKUP; EXTENSIONAL TECTONICS; FAULT ZONE; FRACTURE; SEAFLOOR SPREADING; SPREADING CENTER; STRIKE-SLIP FAULT; TECTONIC STRUCTURE;

ARCTIC; ARCTIC OCEAN; ATLANTIC OCEAN; BAFFIN BAY [ARCTIC OCEAN]; DAVIS STRAIT; GREENLAND; LABRADOR SEA; WEST GREENLAND;

EID: 33846889709     PISSN: 16048156     EISSN: 19044666     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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