Magnetic logs from the Lopra-1/1A and Vestmanna-1 wells, Faroe Islands

Geological Survey of Denmark and Greenland Bulletin

Volumn , Issue 9, 2006, Pages 41-49

  Abrahamsen, Niels ^a   Waagstein, Regin ^b  

^a AARHUS UNIVERSITY   (Denmark)

^b GEOLOGICAL SURVEY OF DENMARK AND GREENLAND   (Denmark)

Author keywords

Faroe Islands; Lopra; Magnetic logging; Magnetic reversals; North Atlantic; NRM; Rock magnetism; Susceptibility; Vestmanna

Indexed keywords

BASALT; LOGGING (GEOPHYSICS); MAGNETIC REVERSAL; MAGNETIC SUSCEPTIBILITY;

ATLANTIC ISLANDS; ATLANTIC OCEAN; FAROE ISLANDS;

EID: 33748465301     PISSN: 16048156     EISSN: 19044666     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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