2D flexural backstripping of extensional basins: The need for a sideways glance

Petroleum Geoscience

Volumn 4, Issue 4, 1998, Pages 327-338

  Roberts, Alan M ^a   Kusznir, Nick J ^b   Yielding, Graham ^a   Styles, Peter ^b  

^a Badley Earth Sciences Ltd   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LIVERPOOL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Basin development; Compaction (geology); Flexure (geology); Isostasy; Subsidence

Indexed keywords

BACK ANALYSIS; BASIN ANALYSIS; BASIN EVOLUTION; HYDROCARBON RESERVOIR; SUBSIDENCE;

NORTH SEA;

EID: 0345491032     PISSN: 13540793     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1144/petgeo.4.4.327     Document Type: Article

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