Postglacial seismicity offshore mid-Norway with emphasis on spatio-temporal-magnitudal variations

Marine and Petroleum Geology

Volumn 22, Issue 1-2 SPEC. ISS., 2005, Pages 137-148

  Bungum, Hilmar ^a,b   Lindholm, Conrad ^a   Faleide, J I ^b  

^a NORSAR   (Norway)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OSLO   (Norway)

Author keywords

Blind faults; Glacial isostatic adjustments; Holocene seismicity; Seismotectonics

Indexed keywords

NEOTECTONICS; PLATE BOUNDARY; POSTGLACIAL SEISMICITY; RIFT ZONES;

EARTHQUAKES; OFFSHORE OIL WELLS; SEISMIC PROSPECTING;

GEOLOGY;

POSTGLACIAL; SEISMICITY;

EASTERN HEMISPHERE; EURASIA; EUROPE; NORTHERN EUROPE; NORWAY; SCANDINAVIA; WORLD;

EID: 14744298723     PISSN: 02648172     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.marpetgeo.2004.10.007     Document Type: Article

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