Evidence for long-term instability in the Storegga Slide region off western Norway

Marine Geology

Volumn 130, Issue 3-4, 1996, Pages 281-292

  Evans, D ^a   King, E L ^b   Kenyon, N H ^c   Brett, C ^a   Wallis, D ^a  

^a BRITISH GEOLOGICAL SURVEY   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BERGEN   (Norway)

^c NATIONAL OCEANOGRAPHY CENTRE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AUTOCHTHONOUS SEDIMENTS; LONG-TERM INSTABILITY; MARINE SEDIMENT; SEDIMENT TRANSPORT; SEISMIC SURVEY; SEISMIC TRIGGERING; SEISMICITY; SLIDES; SLOPE STABILITY;

NORTH SEA, STOREGGA SLIDE; NORWEGIAN SEA, STOREGGA SLIDE;

EID: 0029768643     PISSN: 00253227     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/0025-3227(95)00135-2     Document Type: Article

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