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Devonian basin initiation in East Greenland; a result of sinistral wrench faulting and Caledonian extensional collapse
Paul-Henrik Larsen and Hans-Jorgen Bengaard
Devonian basin initiation in East Greenland; a result of sinistral wrench faulting and Caledonian extensional collapse
Journal of the Geological Society of London (March 1991) 148 (2): 355-368
Devonian basin initiation in East Greenland; a result of sinistral wrench faulting and Caledonian extensional collapse
Journal of the Geological Society of London (March 1991) 148 (2): 355-368
Index Terms/Descriptors
- angular unconformities
- Arctic region
- basins
- Caledonian Orogeny
- contact metamorphism
- cooling
- Devonian
- displacements
- East Greenland
- evolution
- extension faults
- faults
- Greenland
- K/Ar
- lateral faults
- left-lateral faults
- metamorphism
- orogeny
- outcrops
- paleocurrents
- Paleozoic
- reconstruction
- structural geology
- tectonics
- tilt
- unconformities
- uplifts
- wrench faults
- Eleonore Bay Group
ISSN: 0016-7649
EISSN: 2041-479X
Coden: JGSLAS
Serial Title: Journal of the Geological Society of London
Serial Volume: 148
Serial Issue: 2
Title: Devonian basin initiation in East Greenland; a result of sinistral wrench faulting and Caledonian extensional collapse
Affiliation: Geol. Surv. Greenland,
Copenhagen,
Denmark
Pages: 355-368
Published: 199103
Text Language: English
Publisher: Geological Society of London,
London,
United Kingdom
References: 82
Accession Number: 1991-024683
Categories: Structural geology
Document Type: Serial
Bibliographic Level: Analytic
Illustration Description: illus. incl. block diags., sects., strat. col., geol. sketch maps
Source Note: Thematic set: Tectonics and sedimentation
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Secondary Affiliation: GeoRef, Copyright 2018, American Geosciences Institute.
Update Code: 1991