Chapter 44: Geology and petroleum potential of the Lincoln Sea Basin, offshore North Greenland

Geological Society Memoir

Volumn 35, Issue , 2011, Pages 673-684

  Sørensen, Kai ^a   Gautier, Don ^b   Pitman, Janet ^b   Ruth Jackson, H ^c   Dahl Jensen, Trine ^a  

^a GEOLOGICAL SURVEY OF DENMARK AND GREENLAND   (Denmark)

^b U S GEOLOGICAL SURVEY   (United States)

^c GEOLOGICAL SURVEY OF CANADA   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HYDROCARBON RESOURCE; OCEAN BASIN; PALEOGENE; PETROLEUM HYDROCARBON; SEAFLOOR SPREADING; SEDIMENTARY BASIN; SEISMIC DATA; SEISMIC REFRACTION; SEISMIC STRATIGRAPHY; TECTONIC SETTING; UPLIFT;

ARCTIC; ARCTIC OCEAN; CANADA; CANADIAN ARCTIC; GREENLAND; LINCOLN SEA; NUNAVUT; SVERDRUP BASIN;

EID: 80051953359     PISSN: 04354052     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1144/M35.44     Document Type: Article

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