30 years on - Arctic Upper Palaeozoic stratigraphy, depositional evolution and hydrocarbon prospectivity

Norsk Geologisk Tidsskrift

Volumn 85, Issue 1-2, 2005, Pages 151-168

  Stemmerik, Lars ^a   Worsley, David ^b  

^a GEOLOGICAL SURVEY OF DENMARK AND GREENLAND   (Denmark)

^b NONE   (Norway)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARCTIC ENVIRONMENT; DEPOSITIONAL ENVIRONMENT; EVOLUTION; GEOPHYSICAL SURVEY; HYDROCARBON RESOURCE; PALEOZOIC; PANGAEA; PERMIAN; RESERVOIR CHARACTERIZATION; SHALE; SPICULE;

ARCTIC OCEAN; BARENTS SEA;

ALGAE;

EID: 33645154746     PISSN: 0029196X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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