Margin segmentation of Baffin Bay/Davis Strait, eastern Canada based on seismic reflection and potential field data

Marine and Petroleum Geology

Volumn 23, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 127-144

  Skaarup, Nina ^a   Jackson, H Ruth ^b   Oakey, Gordon ^b  

^a GEOLOGICAL SURVEY OF DENMARK AND GREENLAND   (Denmark)

^b GEOLOGICAL SURVEY OF CANADA   (Canada)

Author keywords

Davis Strait; Potential field data; Seismic interpretation

Indexed keywords

POTENTIAL FIELD DATA; SEISMIC INTERPRETATION; SEISMIC REFLECTION;

PETROLOGY; SEDIMENTARY ROCKS; STRUCTURAL GEOLOGY; TECTONICS; VOLCANIC ROCKS;

SEISMOLOGY;

CONTINENTAL MARGIN; SEISMIC REFLECTION;

ARCTIC; ARCTIC OCEAN; BAFFIN BAY [ARCTIC OCEAN]; DAVIS STRAIT;

EID: 29444432543     PISSN: 02648172     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.marpetgeo.2005.06.002     Document Type: Article

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