Elevated, passive continental margins: Not rift shoulders, but expressions of episodic, post-rift burial and exhumation

Global and Planetary Change

Volumn 90-91, Issue , 2012, Pages 73-86

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

^a GEOLOGICAL SURVEY OF DENMARK AND GREENLAND   (Denmark)

^b Pty Ltd   (Australia)

Author keywords

Breakup; Exhumation; Global; Passive margin; Peneplain; Rifting; Subsidence; Uplift

Indexed keywords

EXHUMATION; GLOBAL; PASSIVE MARGIN; PENEPLAIN; RIFTING; UPLIFT;

DROP BREAKUP; EROSION; MORPHOLOGY; SEPARATION; SUBSIDENCE;

GEODYNAMICS;

CONTINENTAL MARGIN; CRUSTAL STRUCTURE; GEODYNAMICS; GEOMORPHOLOGY; GLACIAL EROSION; LITHOSPHERE; NUMERICAL MODEL; RIFTING; SUBSIDENCE; UPLIFT;

ARCTIC; GREENLAND; WEST GREENLAND;

EID: 84861787292     PISSN: 09218181     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.gloplacha.2011.05.004     Document Type: Article

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