Soft-sediment deformation structures in the Late Silurian Stubdal Formation: The result of seismic triggering

Norsk Geologisk Tidsskrift

Volumn 85, Issue 3, 2005, Pages 233-243

  Davies, Neil S ^a   Turner, Peter ^a   Sansom, Ivan J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BIRMINGHAM   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BASIN; DEFORMATION; SANDSTONE; SEDIMENT PROPERTY; SILURIAN; STRATIGRAPHY; SUCCESSION; TECTONICS;

CALEDONIDES; EURASIA; EUROPE; NORTHERN EUROPE; NORWAY; OSLO [NORWAY]; SCANDINAVIA;

EID: 33746538291     PISSN: 0029196X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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