Wide angle converted shear wave analysis of a North Atlantic volcanic rifted continental margin: Constraint on sub-basalt lithology

First Break

Volumn 25, Issue 10, 2007, Pages 63-70

  Eccles, Jennifer D ^a,b   White, Robert S ^a   Robert, Alan W ^a   Christie, Philip A F ^b   Kusznir, N J ^c   Roberts, A M ^c   Healy, D ^c   Spitzer, R ^c   Chappell, A ^c   Fletcher, R ^c   Hurst, N ^c   Lau, H ^c   Lunnon, Z ^c   Parkin, C J ^c   Smith, L K ^c   Tymms, V J ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

^b SCHLUMBERGER CAMBRIDGE RESEARCH   (United Kingdom)

^c NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BASALT; CONTINENTAL MARGIN; LITHOLOGY; S-WAVE; SEISMIC DATA;

ATLANTIC OCEAN; ATLANTIC OCEAN (NORTH);

EID: 34948896006     PISSN: 02635046     EISSN: 13652397     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3997/1365-2397.2007026     Document Type: Article

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