Architecture and controls on Bathonian-Kimmeridgian shallow-marine synrift wedges of the Oseberg-Brage area, northern North Sea

Basin Research

Volumn 9, Issue 3, 1997, Pages 197-226

  Ravnas R ^a,c   Bondevik, K ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BERGEN   (Norway)

^b STATOIL   (Norway)

^c Norske Conoco AS   (Norway)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

JURASSIC; RIFT; SEDIMENTARY BASIN; SEDIMENTATION; SYNRIFT WEDGE; TECTONIC EVOLUTION;

NORTH SEA, OSEBERG FAULT BLOCK;

EID: 0031446422     PISSN: 0950091X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-2117.1997.00041.x     Document Type: Article

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