Seismic stratigraphy and correlation of major regional unconformities in the northern Arabian Sea

Geological Society Special Publication

Volumn 195, Issue , 2002, Pages 25-36

  Gaedicke, Christoph ^a   Prexl, Alexander ^a   Schlüter, Hans Ulrich ^a   Meyer, Heinrich ^a   Roeser, Hans ^a   Clift, Peter ^b  

^a FEDERAL INSTITUTE FOR GEOSCIENCES AND NATURAL RESOURCES BGR   (Germany)

^b WOODS HOLE OCEANOGRAPHIC INSTITUTION   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CORRELATION; SEISMIC STRATIGRAPHY; STRUCTURAL GEOLOGY; TECTONIC SETTING; UNCONFORMITY;

ARABIAN SEA;

EID: 0037005559     PISSN: 03058719     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1144/GSL.SP.2002.195.01.03     Document Type: Article

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