The North Sea Silverpit Crater: Impact structure or pull-apart basin?

Journal of the Geological Society

Volumn 161, Issue 4, 2004, Pages 593-602

  Smith, Kevin ^a  

^a BRITISH GEOLOGICAL SURVEY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Impact crater; Salt tectonics; Silverpit Crater; Strike slip faults; Upheaval Dome

Indexed keywords

CRATER; FORMATION MECHANISM; PALEOGENE; PULL APART BASIN; STRIKE-SLIP FAULT;

ATLANTIC OCEAN; NORTH SEA; SILVERPIT CRATER;

EID: 3142686277     PISSN: 00167649     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1144/0016-764903-140     Document Type: Article

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