Neoproterozoic sedimentary basins with glacigenic deposits of the East Greenland Caledonides

Memoir of the Geological Society of America

Volumn 202, Issue , 2008, Pages 99-136

  Sønderholm, Martin ^a,b   Frederiksen, Kasper S ^b   Smith, M Paul ^c   Tirsgaard, Henrik ^d  

^a Centre for Star and Planet Formation   (Denmark)

^b DONG Energy AS   (Denmark)

^c UNIVERSITY OF BIRMINGHAM   (United Kingdom)

^d MAERSK OIL   (Denmark)

Author keywords

Caledonides; East Greenland; Laurentia; Marinoan tillites; Neoproterozoic sedimentary basin evolution; Sequence stratigraphy

Indexed keywords

CARBONATION; DEPOSITS; SEDIMENTOLOGY; SETTLING TANKS; STRATIGRAPHY;

CALEDONIDES; GREENLAND; LAURENTIA; MARINOAN; SEDIMENTARY BASIN; SEQUENCE STRATIGRAPHY;

SEDIMENTATION;

BASIN EVOLUTION; CALEDONIAN OROGENY; CARBONATE PLATFORM; CONTINENTAL MARGIN; DEPOSITION; DEPOSITIONAL SEQUENCE; FJORD; GLACIAL DEPOSIT; LAURENTIA; PALEOGEOGRAPHY; PROTEROZOIC; SEDIMENT THICKNESS; SEDIMENTARY BASIN; SEDIMENTATION; SEDIMENTOLOGY; SEQUENCE STRATIGRAPHY;

ARCTIC; CALEDONIDES; EAST GREENLAND; GREENLAND;

EID: 77949995474     PISSN: 00721069     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1130/2008.1202(05)     Document Type: Article

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