From volcanic plains to glaciated peaks: BURIAL, uplift and exhumation history of southern East Greenland after opening of the NE Atlantic

Global and Planetary Change

Volumn 116, Issue , 2014, Pages 91-114

  Japsen, Peter ^a   Green, Paul F ^b   Bonow, Johan M ^a,c   Nielsen, Troels F D ^a   Chalmers, James A ^a  

^a GEOLOGICAL SURVEY OF DENMARK AND GREENLAND   (Denmark)

^b Unit 14   (Australia)

^c SÖDERTÖRN UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Burial; Exhumation; Flood basalts; Geodynamics; Greenland; NE Atlantic; Peneplain; Thermonchronology; Uplift

Indexed keywords

BURIAL; EXHUMATION; FLOOD BASALT; GREENLAND; NE ATLANTIC; PENEPLAIN; THERMONCHRONOLOGY; UPLIFT;

BASALT; FLOODS; GEODYNAMICS; INDIUM PLATING; SEA LEVEL; STRATIGRAPHY;

TECTONICS;

CHRONOLOGY; CONTINENTAL MARGIN; GEODYNAMICS; GLACIATION; MIOCENE; PALEOGENE; PLUME; SEA LEVEL; SEAFLOOR; TEMPERATURE EFFECT; UPLIFT; VOLCANIC ERUPTION;

ARCTIC; ATLANTIC OCEAN; ATLANTIC OCEAN (NORTHEAST); GREENLAND; KANGERLUSSUAQ FJORD;

EID: 84896690283     PISSN: 09218181     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.gloplacha.2014.01.012     Document Type: Article

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