Caledonide development offshore-onshore Svalbard based on ocean bottom seismometer, conventional seismic, and potential field data

Tectonophysics

Volumn 401, Issue 1-2, 2005, Pages 79-117

  Breivik, Asbjørn Johan ^a,d   Mjelde, Rolf ^a   Grogan, Paul ^b,e   Shimamura, Hideki ^c   Murai, Yoshio ^c   Nishimura, Yuichi ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BERGEN   (Norway)

^b NORWEGIAN PETROLEUM DIRECTORATE   (Norway)

^c HOKKAIDO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^d UNIVERSITY OF OSLO   (Norway)

^e Goegrupen AS   (Norway)

Author keywords

Barents Sea; Caledonian orogeny; Crustal structure; Gravity anomalies; Ocean bottom seismometers; Svalbard

Indexed keywords

CALEDONIAN OROGENY; CRUSTAL STRUCTURE; OCEAN BOTTOM SEISMOMETER;

ARCTIC; ARCTIC AND ANTARCTIC; ARCTIC OCEAN; BARENTS SEA; OCEANIC REGIONS; SVALBARD; SVALBARD AND JAN MAYEN; WORLD;

MOHO;

EID: 18644384571     PISSN: 00401951     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.tecto.2005.03.009     Document Type: Article

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