Relay ramp evolution and mass flow deposition (Upper Kimmeridgian-Lower Volgian) in the tail end Graben, Danish North Sea

Basin Research

Volumn 17, Issue 4, 2005, Pages 551-567

  Bruhn, Rikke ^a   Vagle, Kåre ^b  

^a DONG Energy AS   (Denmark)

^b ConocoPhillips ^*  (Norway)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FAULT ZONE; JURASSIC; SEDIMENT TRANSPORT; TECTONICS;

ATLANTIC OCEAN; CENTRAL GRABEN; NORTH SEA;

EID: 33745209621     PISSN: 0950091X     EISSN: 13652117     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2117.2005.00276.x     Document Type: Article

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