Neogene inversion of the Central Graben and Ringkøbing-Fyn High, Denmark

Tectonophysics

Volumn 465, Issue 1-4, 2009, Pages 84-97

  Rasmussen, Erik S ^a  

^a GEOLOGICAL SURVEY OF DENMARK AND GREENLAND   (Denmark)

Author keywords

Denmark; Inversion; Neogene; North Sea; Ringk bing Fyn High

Indexed keywords

APATITE FISSION TRACKS; CENOZOIC; CLASTIC SEDIMENTS; CLIMATIC CONDITIONS; DENMARK; EARLY MIOCENE; FENNOSCANDIAN SHIELDS; INVERSION; LATE MIOCENE; MIDDLE MIOCENE; NEOGENE; NEW HIGHS; NORTH SEA; SEDIMENT SUPPLIES; SEDIMENT YIELDS; SEISMIC DATUM; SUBTROPICAL CLIMATES; TEMPERATE CLIMATES;

CLIMATOLOGY; PHOSPHATE MINERALS; SEDIMENTOLOGY;

TECTONICS;

APATITE; CENOZOIC; CLASTIC SEDIMENT; CRETACEOUS; FISSION TRACK DATING; NEOGENE; SEDIMENT YIELD; SEISMIC DATA; UPLIFT;

ATLANTIC OCEAN; BALTIC SHIELD; CENTRAL GRABEN; DENMARK; EURASIA; EUROPE; FYN; MIDTJYLLAND; NORTH SEA; NORTHERN EUROPE; RINGKOBING; SCANDINAVIA; SYDDANMARK;

EID: 60849130689     PISSN: 00401951     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.tecto.2008.10.025     Document Type: Article

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