Regional velocity-depth anomalies, North Sea Chalk: A record of overpressure and Neogene uplift and erosion

AAPG Bulletin

Volumn 82, Issue 11, 1998, Pages 2031-2074

  Japsen, Peter ^a  

^a GEOLOGICAL SURVEY OF DENMARK AND GREENLAND   (Denmark)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

NEOGENE UPLIFT; NORTH SEA CHALK; OVERPRESSURE; REGIONAL VELOCITY DEPTH ANOMALIES;

DATABASE SYSTEMS; EROSION; POROSITY; PRESSURE; VELOCITY;

GEOLOGICAL SURVEYS;

CHALK; CRETACEOUS; EROSION; OVERPRESSURE; SEISMIC VELOCITY; UPLIFT;

NORTH SEA;

EID: 0032216242     PISSN: 01491423     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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