Application of the Single-Bubble Airgun Technique for OBS-Data Acquisition Across the Jan Mayen Ridge, North Atlantic

Marine Geophysical Research

Volumn 19, Issue 1, 1997, Pages 81-96

  Mjelde, Rolf ^a   Fjellanger, Jan Petter ^a   Digranes, Per ^a   Kodaira, Shuichi ^a   Shimamura, Hideki ^b   Shiobara, Hajime ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BERGEN   (Norway)

^b HOKKAIDO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Jan Mayen Ridge; Seismic sources; Wide angle seismics

Indexed keywords

AIRGUN; MARINE SURVEY; SEISMIC SOURCE; SEISMIC SURVEYS; SINGLE-BUBBLE AIRGUN TECHNIQUE;

ATLANTIC, JAN MAYEN RIDGE;

EID: 0030761801     PISSN: 00253235     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/A:1004275600265     Document Type: Article

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