Insights into Cretaceous-Palaeogene sediment transport paths and basin evolution in the North Atlantic from a heavy mineral study of sandstones from southern East Greenland

Petroleum Geoscience

Volumn 10, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 61-72

  Whitham, Andrew G ^a   Morton, Andrew C ^b,c   Fanning, C Mark ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

^b Giddanmu   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ABERDEEN   (United Kingdom)

^d AUSTRALIAN NATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Cretaceous palaeogene; East greenland; Sandstone provenance

Indexed keywords

EID: 83155180126     PISSN: 13540793     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1144/1354-079302-506     Document Type: Article

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