East Greenland coast-parallel dike swarm and its role in continental breakup

Special Paper of the Geological Society of America

Volumn 362, Issue , 2002, Pages 133-158

  Klausen, Martin Bromann ^a   Larsen, Hans Christian ^a  

^a DANISH LITHOSPHERE CENTRE   (Denmark)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FAULTING; LEVEES; OFFSHORE OIL WELL PRODUCTION;

CONTINENT-OCEAN BOUNDARY; CONTINENTAL BREAK-UP; CONTINENTAL CRUSTS; DIMENSIONAL VARIATIONS; FIELD CLASSIFICATION; SHEETED DIKE COMPLEX; STATISTICAL TREATMENT; YOUNGER GENERATIONS;

HYDRAULIC STRUCTURES;

ASYMMETRY; CONTINENTAL BREAKUP; CONTINENTAL CRUST; CONTINENTAL MARGIN; DIKE SWARM; DILATION; EMPLACEMENT; MAGMA; PHOTOGRAMMETRY; PRECAMBRIAN; RIFT ZONE; SUBSIDENCE; UPLIFT;

ARCTIC; EAST GREENLAND; GREENLAND; ICELAND;

EID: 84870945097     PISSN: 00721077     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1130/0-8137-2362-0.133     Document Type: Article

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