Depth imaging of basalt flows in the Faeroe-Shetland Basin

Geophysical Journal International

Volumn 152, Issue 2, 2003, Pages 353-371

  Fliedner, Moritz M ^a   White, Robert S ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Faeroe Shetland Basin; Long offset seismic; Rifting; Subbasalt imaging; Synthetic aperture profiling

Indexed keywords

BASALT; LAVA FLOW; PRESTACK MIGRATION; RIFTING; SEISMIC REFLECTION; SEISMIC SURVEY; SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR; VELOCITY PROFILE;

ATLANTIC OCEAN;

EID: 0037330076     PISSN: 0956540X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-246X.2003.01833.x     Document Type: Article

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