Using bathymetry to identify basin inversion structures on the English Channel shelf

Geology

Volumn 34, Issue 12, 2006, Pages 1001-1004

  Collier, Jenny S ^a   Gupta, Sanjeev ^a   Potter, Graeme ^b   Palmer Felgate, Andy ^a  

^a IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b UK Hydrographic Office   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Basin inversion; Channel Basin; English Channel shelf; High resolution bathymetry; Inversion anticline

Indexed keywords

CHANNEL BASIN; ENGLISH CHANNEL SHELF; INVERSION ANTICLINE;

CATCHMENTS; MECHANICAL PROPERTIES; SEISMOGRAPHS; STRATIGRAPHY; STRUCTURAL GEOLOGY;

BATHYMETRY;

ANTICLINE; BASIN EVOLUTION; BATHYMETRY; BEDROCK; CONTINENTAL SHELF; FOLDING; GRABEN; STRATIGRAPHY; STRUCTURAL CONTROL;

ENGLISH CHANNEL; EURASIA; EUROPE; WESTERN EUROPE;

EID: 33845570248     PISSN: 00917613     EISSN: 00917613     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1130/G22714A.1     Document Type: Article

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