The Bornholm Basin, southern Scandinavia: a complex history from Late Cretaceous structural developments to recent sedimentation

Boreas

Volumn 46, Issue 1, 2017, Pages 3-17

  Jensen, Jørn B ^a   Moros, Matthias ^b   Endler, Rudolf ^b  

^a GEOLOGICAL SURVEY OF DENMARK AND GREENLAND   (Denmark)

^b LEIBNIZ INSTITUTE FOR BALTIC SEA RESEARCH   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BASIN EVOLUTION; CRETACEOUS; DEPOSITIONAL ENVIRONMENT; FAULT ZONE; SEDIMENTATION; SEISMIC REFLECTION; STRIKE-SLIP FAULT; TECTONIC STRUCTURE;

ATLANTIC OCEAN; BALTIC SEA; BORNHOLM BASIN; SCANDINAVIA; TEISSEYRE-TORNQUIST ZONE;

EID: 84978946105     PISSN: 03009483     EISSN: 15023885     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/bor.12194     Document Type: Article

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