North Sea Quaternary morphology from seismic and magnetic data: Indications for gas hydrates during glaciation?

Petroleum Geoscience

Volumn 11, Issue 4, 2005, Pages 331-337

  Fichler, Christine ^a   Henriksen, Sverre ^a   Rueslaatten, Haakon ^a   Hovland, Martin ^a  

^a STATOIL   (Norway)

Author keywords

Crater; Gas hydrates; Magnetic; Quaternary; Tunnel valleys

Indexed keywords

GAS HYDRATE; MORPHOLOGY; QUATERNARY; SEISMIC SURVEY;

ATLANTIC OCEAN; NORTH SEA; OCEANIC REGIONS; WORLD;

EID: 27944447358     PISSN: 13540793     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1144/1354-079304-635     Document Type: Article

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