A fossilized Opal A to Opal C/T transformation on the northeast Atlantic margin: Support for a significantly elevated palaeogeothermal gradient during the Neogene?

Basin Research

Volumn 14, Issue 4, 2002, Pages 467-486

  Davies, R J ^a   Cartwright, J ^b  

^a EXXONMOBIL UPSTREAM RESEARCH COMPANY   (United States)

^b CARDIFF UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CONTINENTAL MARGIN; DIAGENESIS; GEOTHERMAL GRADIENT; NEOGENE; OCEAN BOTTOM SEISMOMETER; OPAL; SEISMIC REFLECTION; SEISMIC STRATIGRAPHY;

ATLANTIC OCEAN;

EID: 0036913955     PISSN: 0950091X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-2117.2002.00184.x     Document Type: Article

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