Geological development of the Sørvestsnaget Basin, SW Barents Sea, from ocean bottom seismic, surface seismic and potential field data

Norsk Geologisk Tidsskrift

Volumn 82, Issue 3, 2002, Pages 183-202

  Mjelde, Rolf ^a,b   Breivik, Asbjørn Johan ^a   Elstad, Harald ^c   Ryseth, Alf Eivind ^c   Skilbrei, Jan Reidar ^d   Opsal, Jan Gunnar ^c   Shimamura, Hideki ^e   Murai, Yoshio ^e   Nishimura, Yuichi ^e  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BERGEN   (Norway)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

^c STATOIL   (Norway)

^d GEOLOGICAL SURVEY OF NORWAY   (Norway)

^e HOKKAIDO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AEROMAGNETIC SURVEY; GEOLOGICAL SURVEY; GEOMETRY; OCEANIC CRUST; SEAFLOOR; SEISMIC DATA; SEISMOGRAPH; SEISMOMETRY;

ARCTIC OCEAN; BARENTS SEA; LOFOTEN BASIN; NORWEGIAN SEA;

EID: 0012747933     PISSN: 0029196X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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