Detachments and low-angle faults in the northern North Sea rift system

Geological Society Special Publication

Volumn 167, Issue , 2000, Pages 105-131

  Fossen, Haakon ^a   Odinsen, Tore ^a   Færseth, Roald B ^b   Gabrielsen, Roy H ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BERGEN   (Norway)

^b STATOIL   (Norway)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DETACHMENT FAULT; FAULT GEOMETRY; FAULTING; RIFT ZONE; TECTONIC EVOLUTION; TECTONICS;

NORTH SEA;

EID: 0034039160     PISSN: 03058719     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1144/GSL.SP.2000.167.01.06     Document Type: Article

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