A new model for the Paleogene motion of Greenland relative to North America: Plate reconstructions of the Davis Strait and Nares Strait regions between Canada and Greenland

Journal of Geophysical Research: Solid Earth

Volumn 117, Issue 10, 2012, Pages

  Oakey, Gordon N ^a   Chalmers, James A ^b  

^a BEDFORD INSTITUTE OF OCEANOGRAPHY   (Canada)

^b GEOLOGICAL SURVEY OF DENMARK AND GREENLAND   (Denmark)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

KINEMATICS; MODELING; PALEOGENE; PLATE MOTION; PLATE TECTONICS; SPREADING CENTER; TECTONIC RECONSTRUCTION; INTRAPLATE PROCESS; OCEANIC CRUST; PALEOCENE; PLATE BOUNDARY; RECONSTRUCTION; SEAFLOOR SPREADING; TRANSPRESSION;

ARCTIC; ARCTIC OCEAN; BAFFIN BAY [ARCTIC OCEAN]; CANADA; DAVIS STRAIT; GREENLAND; NARES STRAIT; ATLANTIC OCEAN; LABRADOR SEA;

EID: 84867511606     PISSN: 21699313     EISSN: 21699356     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2011JB008942     Document Type: Article

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