Vp/Vs-ratios from the central Kolbeinsey Ridge to the Jan Mayen Basin, North Atlantic; implications for lithology, porosity and present-day stress field

Marine Geophysical Research

Volumn 23, Issue 2, 2002, Pages 123-145

  Mjelde, Rolf ^a   Aurvåg, Roar ^a   Kodaira, Shuichi ^b   Shimamura, Hideki ^b   Gunnarsson, Karl ^c   Nakanishi, Ayako ^b   Shiobara, Hajime ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BERGEN   (Norway)

^b HOKKAIDO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^c National Energy Authority Reykjavik   (Iceland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANISOTROPY; BASALT; COMPRESSIVE STRESS; MARINE ENGINEERING; MICROCRACKS; POROSITY; SEDIMENTS;

CRACK DENSITY;

GEOPHYSICS;

LITHOLOGY; MID-OCEAN RIDGE; MODELING; OCEAN BOTTOM SEISMOMETER; POROSITY; SEISMIC VELOCITY; SPREADING CENTER; STRESS FIELD;

ATLANTIC OCEAN; JAN MAYEN BASIN; KOLBEINSEY RIDGE;

EID: 0036962556     PISSN: 00253235     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/a:1022439707307     Document Type: Article

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