Natural gas hydrates on the southeast U.S. margin: Constraints from full waveform and travel time inversions of wide-angle seismic data

Journal of Geophysical Research: Solid Earth

Volumn 102, Issue B7, 1997, Pages 15345-15365

  Korenaga, J ^a,c   Holbrook, W S ^a   Singh, S C ^b   Minshull, T A ^b  

^a WOODS HOLE OCEANOGRAPHIC INSTITUTION   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

^c MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BOTTOM SIMULATING REFLECTOR; BOTTOM-SIMULATING REFLECTORS; CONTINENTAL MARGIN; CONTINENTAL MARGINS; GAS HYDRATE; GAS HYDRATES; SEISMIC DATA; SEISMIC SURVEY;

ATLANTIC, SOUTHEAST US MARGIN;

EID: 0031455072     PISSN: 21699313     EISSN: 21699356     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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