The origin and nature of seismic reflections of sharp-based shoreface deposits (upper Jurassic Siliciclastics, northern France)

Geophysical Prospecting

Volumn 54, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 211-236

  Braaksma, Hendrik ^a   Drijkoningen, G G ^b   Filippidou, N ^b   Kenter, J A M ^c   Proust, J N ^d  

^a UNIV MONTPELLIER   (France)

^b DELFT UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Netherlands)

^c VU UNIVERSITY AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

^d UNIVERSITÉ DE RENNES 1   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; IMAGING TECHNIQUES; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MINERALOGY; OFFSHORE STRUCTURES; PETROLOGY; STRATIGRAPHY; TEXTURES;

AVERAGING ALGORITHM; OFFSHORE MARINE SHALES; REFLECTION IMAGES; SEISMIC REFLECTIONS; SHOREFACE DEPOSITS; STRATIGRAPHIC MODEL;

STRUCTURAL GEOLOGY;

ACOUSTIC PROPERTY; GEOPHYSICS; IMAGING METHOD; SEDIMENTOLOGY; SEISMIC REFLECTION;

EURASIA; EUROPE; FRANCE; WESTERN EUROPE;

EID: 33646009466     PISSN: 00168025     EISSN: 13652478     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2478.2006.00529.x     Document Type: Article

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