A compaction trend for Cretaceous and Tertiary shales on the Norwegian Shelf based on sonic transit times

Petroleum Geoscience

Volumn 2, Issue 2, 1996, Pages 159-166

  Hansen, Sven ^a  

^a AARHUS UNIVERSITY   (Denmark)

Author keywords

Compaction; Porosity; Shale; Transit time

Indexed keywords

COMPACTION; CRETACEOUS; POROSITY; SHALE; TERTIARY; TRANSIT TIME;

NORWEGIAN SEA;

EID: 0029769052     PISSN: 13540793     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1144/petgeo.2.2.159     Document Type: Article

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