High-level landscapes along the margin of southern East Greenland-A record of tectonic uplift and incision after breakup in the NE Atlantic

Global and Planetary Change

Volumn 116, Issue , 2014, Pages 10-29

  Bonow, Johan M ^a,b   Japsen, Peter ^a   Nielsen, Troels F D ^a  

^a SÖDERTÖRN UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^b GEOLOGICAL SURVEY OF DENMARK AND GREENLAND   (Denmark)

Author keywords

Cenozoic; Denudation chronology; East Greenland; Erosion surface; North Atlantic; Norway; Passive margin; Peneplain; Subsidence; Uplift

Indexed keywords

EID: 84894038848     PISSN: 09218181     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.gloplacha.2014.01.010     Document Type: Article

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