Analysis of Palaeogene strike-slip tectonics along the southern East Greenland margin (Sødalen area)

Geological Survey of Denmark and Greenland Bulletin

Volumn , Issue 23, 2011, Pages 65-68

  Guarnieri, Pierpaolo ^a  

^a Centre for Star and Planet Formation   (Denmark)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CONTINENTAL MARGIN; PALEOGENE; STRIKE-SLIP FAULT; TECTONIC SETTING;

ARCTIC; EAST GREENLAND; GREENLAND;

EID: 79960612325     PISSN: 16048156     EISSN: 19044666     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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