Implications of Mesozoic-Recent basin development in the western Inner Moray Firth, UK

Marine and Petroleum Geology

Volumn 8, Issue 3, 1991, Pages

  Underhill, John R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

basin development; fault motions; Inner Moray Firth, UK

Indexed keywords

BASIN EVOLUTION; CAINOZOIC; FAULTING; GREAT GLEN FAULT; MESOZOIC; NORMAL FAULT;

NORTH SEA, MORAY FIRTH; UK, SCOTLAND, MORAY FIRTH;

EID: 0026313374     PISSN: 02648172     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/0264-8172(91)90089-J     Document Type: Article

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