Impact breccia and ejecta from the Mjølnir crater in the Barents Sea - The Ragnarok Formation and Sindre Bed

Norsk Geologisk Tidsskrift

Volumn 84, Issue 3, 2004, Pages 143-167

  Dypvik, Henning ^a   Mørk, Atle ^b   Smelror, Morten ^c   Sandbakken, Pål T ^d   Tsikalas, Filippos ^a   Vigran, Jorunn Os ^e   Bremer, Gerd Merethe A ^a   Nagy, Jenö ^a   Gabrielsen, Roy H ^f   Faleide, Jan Inge ^a   Bahiru, Gashawbeza Mengisu ^g   Weiss, Hermann M ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OSLO   (Norway)

^b SINTEF PETROLEUM RESEARCH   (Norway)

^c GEOLOGICAL SURVEY OF NORWAY   (Norway)

^d Stavil ASA   (Norway)

^e Norges Forskningsråd ^*  (Norway)

^f Norges forskningsrad   (Norway)

^g GEOLOGICAL SURVEY OF ETHIOPIA   (Ethiopia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

INLAND SEA; PALEONTOLOGY; SEDIMENT CORE; SEDIMENTOLOGY; SEISMIC REFLECTION; STRATIGRAPHY; VOLCANIC ERUPTION; WATER DEPTH;

ARCTIC OCEAN; BARENTS SEA; MJOLNIR CRATER;

EID: 29244450703     PISSN: 0029196X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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