Exploring below the basalt, offshore Faroes: A case history of sub-basalt imaging

Petroleum Geoscience

Volumn 13, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 213-225

  Gallagher, Joseph W ^a   Dromgoole, Peter W ^a  

^a STATOIL   (Norway)

Author keywords

Faroes Shetland basin; Sab basalt exploration; Sub basalt imaging

Indexed keywords

BASALT; GEOLOGIC MODELS; IMAGING TECHNIQUES; MAPPING; OFFSHORE PETROLEUM PROSPECTING; SEISMIC PROSPECTING;

BASALT; DATA PROCESSING; IMAGING METHOD; SEISMIC DATA; SEISMIC SURVEY;

ATLANTIC ISLANDS; ATLANTIC OCEAN; FAROE ISLANDS; SHETLAND BASIN;

EID: 34548145205     PISSN: 13540793     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1144/1354-079306-711     Document Type: Article

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