Late Holocene strike-slip offset of a subsurface channel interpreted from three-dimensional seismic data, eastern offshore Trinidad

Geology

Volumn 35, Issue 9, 2007, Pages 859-862

  Soto, M David ^a,b   Mann, Paul ^a   Escalona, Alejandro ^a,c   Wood, Lesli J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN   (United States)

^b MARATHON OIL COMPANY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF STAVANGER   (Norway)

Author keywords

Neotectonics; Strike slip fault; Three dimensional seismic data; Trinidad

Indexed keywords

NEOTECTONICS; SEISMIC DATA; STRIKE-SLIP FAULT;

GEOCHRONOLOGY; GEODESY; SEISMOLOGY; TECTONICS;

STRUCTURAL GEOLOGY;

CHANNEL FLOW; FAULT ZONE; HOLOCENE; LAST GLACIAL MAXIMUM; NEOTECTONICS; PLATE BOUNDARY; SEAFLOOR; SEISMIC DATA; STRIKE-SLIP FAULT; SUBSURFACE FLOW;

ATLANTIC ISLANDS; ATLANTIC OCEAN; CARIBBEAN ISLANDS; LESSER ANTILLES; TRINIDAD AND TOBAGO;

EID: 34548730817     PISSN: 00917613     EISSN: 00917613     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1130/G23738A.1     Document Type: Article

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