Temporal constraints on the growth and decay of large-scale mobilized mud masses and implications for fluid flow mapping in sedimentary basins

Terra Nova

Volumn 17, Issue 6, 2005, Pages 580-585

  Jackson, Christopher ^a,b   Stoddart, Daniel ^a  

^a STATOIL   (Norway)

^b IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CRETACEOUS; FLUID FLOW; SEAFLOOR; SEDIMENTARY BASIN; SEISMIC STRATIGRAPHY;

EURASIA; EUROPE; NORTHERN EUROPE; NORWAY; SCANDINAVIA;

EID: 33745273606     PISSN: 09544879     EISSN: 13653121     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-3121.2005.00652.x     Document Type: Article

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