Aspects of the structure on the coast of the West Greenland volcanic province revealed in seismic data

Bulletin of the Geological Society of Denmark

Volumn 55, Issue , 2007, Pages 65-80

  Skaarup, Nina ^a   Pulvertaft, T Christopher R ^a  

^a GEOLOGICAL SURVEY OF DENMARK AND GREENLAND   (Denmark)

Author keywords

Coastal tilting; Extensional faulting; Palaeogene basalts; West Greenland

Indexed keywords

EID: 38649119183     PISSN: 00116297     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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