Bottom-simulating reflections and geothermal gradients across the western Svalbard margin

Terra Nova

Volumn 17, Issue 6, 2005, Pages 510-516

  Vanneste, Maarten ^a   Guidard, Stéphanie ^a   Mienert, Jürgen ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TROMSØ   (Norway)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FAULT ZONE; FAULTING; GEOTHERMAL GRADIENT; NORMAL FAULT; RIFTING; SEISMIC REFLECTION; TECTONIC STRUCTURE; TRANSFORM FAULT;

ARCTIC OCEAN; KNIPOVICH RIDGE; NORWEGIAN SEA; SVALBARD MARGIN;

EID: 33745271370     PISSN: 09544879     EISSN: 13653121     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-3121.2005.00643.x     Document Type: Article

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