Isostatic density modelling explains the missing root of the Scandes

Norsk Geologisk Tidsskrift

Volumn 87, Issue 1-2, 2007, Pages 13-20

  Ebbing, Jörg ^a  

^a GEOLOGICAL SURVEY OF NORWAY   (Norway)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BOUGUER ANOMALY; CENOZOIC; CONFERENCE PROCEEDING; GRAVITY FIELD; LITHOSPHERIC STRUCTURE; MODELING; MOHO; UPLIFT;

BALTIC SHIELD; EURASIA; EUROPE; NORTHERN EUROPE; SCANDES MOUNTAINS; SCANDINAVIA;

EID: 51849140613     PISSN: 0029196X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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