Sandstone wedges of the Cretaceous-Lower Tertiary Kangerlussuaq Basin, East Greenland - Outcrop analogues to the offshore North Atlantic

Petroleum Geology Conference Proceedings

Volumn 5, Issue 0, 1999, Pages 337-348

  Larsen, M ^a   Hamberg, L ^b   Olaussen, S ^c   Preuss, T ^a   Stemmerik, L ^a  

^a GEOLOGICAL SURVEY OF DENMARK AND GREENLAND   (Denmark)

^b DONG Energy AS   (Denmark)

^c Saga Petroleum as   (Norway)

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EID: 80052525919     PISSN: 20479921     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1144/0050337     Document Type: Conference Paper

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