Sub-basalt structures east of the Faroe Islands revealed from wide-angle seismic and gravity data

Petroleum Geoscience

Volumn 11, Issue 4, 2005, Pages 291-308

  Raum, Thomas ^a   Mjelde, R ^a   Berge, A M ^a,b   Paulsen, J T ^a,c   Digranes, P ^a,b   Shimamura, H ^d   Shiobara, H ^d,e   Kodaira, S ^d,f   Larsen, V B ^b   Fredsted, R ^b   Harrison, D J ^g   Johnson, M ^h  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BERGEN   (Norway)

^b STATOIL   (Norway)

^c Talisman Energy Norge AS   (Norway)

^d HOKKAIDO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^e UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

^f JAPAN AGENCY FOR MARINE EARTH SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Japan)

^g Exxon Mobil   (United Kingdom)

^h EXXONMOBIL UPSTREAM RESEARCH COMPANY   (United States)

Author keywords

Crustal structure; Faroe Shetland Channel; Sedimentary rocks; Sub basalt; Wide angle seismic data

Indexed keywords

CRUSTAL STRUCTURE; OCEAN BOTTOM SEISMOMETER;

ATLANTIC ISLANDS; ATLANTIC OCEAN; FAROE ISLANDS; OCEANIC REGIONS; WORLD;

EID: 27944502998     PISSN: 13540793     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1144/1354-079304-627     Document Type: Article

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