Insights from the Jan Mayen system in the Norwegian-Greenland sea-I. Mapping of a microcontinent

Geophysical Journal International

Volumn 191, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 385-412

  Peron Pinvidic, Gwenn ^a   Gernigon, Laurent ^a   Gaina, Carmen ^b   Ball, Philip ^c  

^a GEOLOGICAL SURVEY OF NORWAY   (Norway)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OSLO   (Norway)

^c STATOIL   (Norway)

Author keywords

Atlantic Ocean; Continental margins: divergent; Dynamics of lithosphere and mantle; Oceanic plateaus and microcontinents

Indexed keywords

ATLANTIC OCEAN; CONTINENT-OCEAN BOUNDARY; CONTINENTAL BREAK-UP; CONTINENTAL CRUSTS; CONTINENTAL MARGIN; GREENLAND; MARGIN SETTING; OCEANIC PLATEAUS AND MICROCONTINENTS; POTENTIAL FIELD; SEDIMENTARY ARCHITECTURE; SEDIMENTARY BASIN; SEDIMENTARY UNITS; SEISMIC REFLECTION PROFILES; VOLCANIC EVENT;

BUILDINGS; STRATIGRAPHY;

SEDIMENTOLOGY;

CONTINENTAL BREAKUP; CONTINENTAL CRUST; CONTINENTAL MARGIN; DEFORMATION; MANTLE STRUCTURE; MAPPING METHOD; OCEANIC LITHOSPHERE; RIFT ZONE; SEDIMENTARY BASIN; SEISMIC REFLECTION; TECTONIC SETTING; UPLIFT;

ARCTIC; ARCTIC OCEAN; GREENLAND SEA; JAN MAYEN; NORWEGIAN SEA; SVALBARD AND JAN MAYEN;

EID: 84867401827     PISSN: 0956540X     EISSN: 1365246X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-246X.2012.05639.x     Document Type: Article

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