Papua New Guinea MT: Looking where seismic is blind

Geophysical Prospecting

Volumn 44, Issue 6, 1996, Pages 935-961

  Hoversten, G Michael ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b BP EXPLORATION   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; IMAGING TECHNIQUES; LIMESTONE; MAPPING; NATURAL RESOURCES EXPLORATION; RADAR IMAGING; SEDIMENTS; THREE DIMENSIONAL;

DARAI LIMESTONE; FAULT ZONES; GROOM-BAILEY DECOMPOSITION; HYDROCARBON EXPLORATION; LOW RESISTIVITY ZONES; MAGNETOTELLURICS; ONE DIMENSIONAL; PAPUA NEW GUINEA; TWO DIMENSIONAL;

ELECTROMAGNETIC PROSPECTING;

HYDROCARBON EXPLORAITON; HYDROCARBON EXPLORATION; KARST; LIMESTONE; MAGNETOTELLURIC SOUNDING; MAGNETOTELLURICS; MAPPING; SUBSURFACE MAPPING;

PAPUA NEW GUINEA;

EID: 0030292189     PISSN: 00168025     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2478.1996.tb00185.x     Document Type: Article

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