3D seismic images of a low-sinuosity slope channel and related depositional lobe (West Africa deep-offshore)

Marine and Petroleum Geology

Volumn 20, Issue 6-8, 2003, Pages 615-629

  Fonnesu, Franco ^a  

^a ENI S P A   (Italy)

Author keywords

3D seismic; Channel levee; Growth Stages; Seismic amplitude maps

Indexed keywords

HYDROCARBONS; IMAGE ANALYSIS; SEISMOLOGY; STRATIGRAPHY;

TRANSITIONAL ZONES;

PETROLEUM GEOLOGY;

CHANNEL MORPHOLOGY; DEEP WATER; HYDROCARBON RESERVOIR; LEVEE; SEISMIC SURVEY; SUBMARINE FAN;

ATLANTIC OCEAN;

EID: 0347275778     PISSN: 02648172     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.marpetgeo.2003.03.006     Document Type: Article

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