Architecture and evolution of the East Greenland Caledonides- An introduction

Memoir of the Geological Society of America

Volumn 202, Issue , 2008, Pages 29-53

  Higgins, A K ^a   Leslie, A Graham ^b  

^a Centre for Star and Planet Formation   (Denmark)

^b Murchison House   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Caledonian; Extensional faulting; Foreland directed thrusting; Structural domains

Indexed keywords

OFFSHORE OIL WELL PRODUCTION; STRUCTURAL GEOLOGY;

CALEDONIAN; CONTINENTAL BASINS; EXTENSIONAL FAULTING; FORELAND-DIRECTED THRUSTING; GEOLOGICAL DOMAINS; LATE OROGENIC EXTENSION; PALEOPROTEROZOIC; STRUCTURAL DOMAINS;

PILES;

ARCHEAN; CALEDONIAN OROGENY; CONTINENTAL MARGIN; CRATON; EXTENSIONAL TECTONICS; FORELAND BASIN; LAURENTIA; LITHOLOGY; LITHOSTRATIGRAPHY; NUNATAK; PLATE CONVERGENCE; STRUCTURAL GEOLOGY; TECTONIC EVOLUTION; TECTONIC SETTING; THRUST;

ARCTIC; CALEDONIDES; EAST GREENLAND; GREENLAND;

EID: 77949941646     PISSN: 00721069     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1130/2008.1202(02)     Document Type: Article

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