Iceland: A window on North-Atlantic divergent plate tectonics and geologic processes

Episodes

Volumn 31, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 92-97

  Sigmundsson, Freysteinn ^a   Sæmundsson, Kristján ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ICELAND   (Iceland)

^b ICELAND GEOSURVEY   (Iceland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CONFERENCE PROCEEDING; EURASIAN PLATE; GLACIATION; NORTH AMERICAN PLATE; PLATE BOUNDARY; PLATE TECTONICS; RIFTING; SEAFLOOR; TERTIARY; VOLCANISM;

ATLANTIC OCEAN; ATLANTIC OCEAN (NORTH); EURASIA; EUROPE; ICELAND; MID-ATLANTIC RIDGE; NORTHERN EUROPE; SCANDINAVIA;

EID: 44649142012     PISSN: 07053797     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.18814/epiiugs/2008/v31i1/013     Document Type: Conference Paper

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