Application of three-dimensional seismic data to documenting the scale, geometry and distribution of soft-sediment features in sedimentary basins: An example from the Lomre Terrace, offshore Norway

Geological Society Special Publication

Volumn 277, Issue , 2007, Pages 253-267

  Jackson, C A L ^a  

^a IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CRETACEOUS; DATA INTERPRETATION; DEFORMATION MECHANISM; FAULT GEOMETRY; OLIGOCENE; PLIOCENE; SEDIMENTARY BASIN; SEISMIC DATA; SEISMIC REFLECTION; SEISMOLOGY; SUCCESSION;

EURASIA; EUROPE; NORTHERN EUROPE; NORWAY; SCANDINAVIA;

EID: 34247378567     PISSN: 03058719     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1144/GSL.SP.2007.277.01.15     Document Type: Article

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