The role of fault interaction and linkage in controlling synrift stratigraphic sequences: Late Jurassic, Statfjord East area, northern North Sea

AAPG Bulletin

Volumn 84, Issue 1, 2000, Pages 45-64

  Dawers, Nancye H ^b   Underhill, John R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

^b NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

SYNRIFT SEQUENCES;

PETROLEUM PROSPECTING; SEISMIC PROSPECTING; STRATIGRAPHY;

PETROLEUM GEOLOGY;

FAULT GEOMETRY; HYDROCARBON RESERVOIR; JURASSIC; RIFT ZONE; STRUCTURAL GEOLOGY;

NORTH SEA;

EID: 0034065098     PISSN: 01491423     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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