Thermochronology, erosion surfaces and missing section in West Greenland

Journal of the Geological Society

Volumn 168, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 817-830

  Green, Paul F ^a   Japsen, Peter ^b   Chalmers, James A ^b   Bonow, Johan M ^b  

^a Unit 14   (Australia)

^b GEOLOGICAL SURVEY OF DENMARK AND GREENLAND   (Denmark)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EROSION SURFACES; LANDSCAPE ANALYSIS; LATE MIOCENE; MARINE DEPOSITS; MIDDLE MIOCENE; NEO GENES; PASSIVE CONTINENTAL MARGIN; RIFTED CONTINENTAL MARGIN; RIFTING PROCESS; SEDIMENTARY UNITS; THERMOCHRONOLOGY; WEST GREENLAND;

LANDFORMS;

TECTONICS;

CONTINENTAL MARGIN; EROSION; EXHUMATION; MARINE SEDIMENT; MIOCENE; NEOGENE; OLIGOCENE; PALEOGENE; RIFTING; SUBSIDENCE; THERMOCHRONOLOGY;

ARCTIC; GREENLAND; WEST GREENLAND;

EID: 79959527994     PISSN: 00167649     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1144/0016-76492010-124     Document Type: Article

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