Comparison between a regional and semi-regional crustal OBS model in the Vøring Basin, mid-Norway margin

Pure and Applied Geophysics

Volumn 149, Issue 4, 1997, Pages 641-665

  Mjelde, Rolf ^a   Kodaira, Shuichi ^a   Digranes, Per ^a   Shimamura, Hideki ^b   Kanazawa, Toshihiko ^c   Shiobara, Hajime ^b   Berg, Eivind W ^d   Riise, Oddmund ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BERGEN   (Norway)

^b HOKKAIDO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

^d STATOIL   (Norway)

Author keywords

3 component OBSs; Crustal structure; V ring Basin

Indexed keywords

CRUSTAL STRUCTURE; OCEAN BOTTOM SEISMOMETER; OCEAN BOTTOM SEISMOMETERS; SEISMIC VELOCITY STRUCTURE;

NORWEGIAN SEA, VORING BASIN;

EID: 0031468012     PISSN: 00334553     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s000240050045     Document Type: Article

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