Sequential dip-slip fault movement during rifting: A new model for the evolution of the Jurassic trilete North sea rift system

Petroleum Geoscience

Volumn 7, Issue 4, 2001, Pages 371-388

  Davies, R J ^a   Turner, J D ^a   Underhill, J R ^a  

^a EXXONMOBIL UPSTREAM RESEARCH COMPANY   (United States)

Author keywords

Dip slip fault; Kinematics; Rotation (geology); Sequence; Stress

Indexed keywords

DIP-SLIP FAULT; HYDROCARBON RESERVOIR; JURASSIC; KINEMATICS; RIFTING; TECTONIC EVOLUTION;

NORTH SEA;

EID: 0035198880     PISSN: 13540793     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1144/petgeo.7.4.371     Document Type: Article

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