Overpressured Cenozoic shale mapped from velocity anomalies relative to a baseline for marine shale, North Sea

Petroleum Geoscience

Volumn 5, Issue 4, 1999, Pages 321-336

  Japsen, Peter ^a  

^a GEOLOGICAL SURVEY OF DENMARK AND GREENLAND   (Denmark)

Author keywords

Cenozoic; North Sea; Overpressure; Shale; Velocity

Indexed keywords

OVERPRESSURE; SEISMIC VELOCITY; SHALE;

NORTH SEA;

EID: 0033401584     PISSN: 13540793     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1144/petgeo.5.4.321     Document Type: Article

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