Basement structure of the continental margin in the Lofoten-Lopphavet area, northern Norway: Constraints from potential field data, on-land structural mapping and palaeomagnetic data

Norsk Geologisk Tidsskrift

Volumn 77, Issue 1, 1997, Pages 15-30

  Olesen, Odleiv ^a   Torsvik, Trond H ^a   Tveten, Einar ^a   Zwaan, Klaas Bouke ^a   Løseth, Helge ^b,c   Henningsen, Tormod ^c  

^a GEOLOGICAL SURVEY OF NORWAY   (Norway)

^b SINTEF PETROLEUM RESEARCH   (Norway)

^c STATOIL   (Norway)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BASEMENT ROCK; BASEMENT STRUCTURE; CONTINENTAL MARGIN; CONTINENTAL MARGINS; FAULT; GEOPHYSICAL DATA; PALAEOMAGNETISM; STRUCTURAL GEOLOGY;

NORWAY, LOFOTEN; NORWAY, LOPPHAVET; NORWEGIAN SEA;

EID: 0030797971     PISSN: 0029196X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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