Upper Cenozoic channels and fans on 3D seismic data in the northern Norwegian North Sea

Petroleum Geoscience

Volumn 4, Issue 1, 1998, Pages 67-80

  Gregersen, Ulrik ^a  

^a AARHUS UNIVERSITY   (Denmark)

Author keywords

Cenozoic; Channel; Fan; Northern North Sea; Three dimensional seismic data

Indexed keywords

CHANNEL; HYDROCARBON ENTRAPMENT; NEOGENE; SEISMIC SURVEY;

NORTH SEA;

EID: 0031849368     PISSN: 13540793     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1144/petgeo.4.1.67     Document Type: Article

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