Seismic images of a collision zone offshore NW Sabah/Borneo

Marine and Petroleum Geology

Volumn 25, Issue 7, 2008, Pages 606-624

  Franke, Dieter ^a   Barckhausen, Udo ^a   Heyde, Ingo ^a   Tingay, Mark ^b   Ramli, Nordin ^c  

^a FEDERAL INSTITUTE FOR GEOSCIENCES AND NATURAL RESOURCES BGR   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ADELAIDE   (Australia)

^c PETRONAS CARIGALI SDN BHD   (Malaysia)

Author keywords

Northwest Borneo margin; Sedimentary succession; Seismic data

Indexed keywords

(1 1 0) SURFACE; COLLISION ZONES; COMPRESSIONAL; CONTINENTAL (CO); CONTINENTAL MARGINS; CRUSTAL SHORTENING; CUT THROUGH; DEEP WATERS; ELSEVIER (CO); HIGH VELOCITY; INDIVIDUAL (PSS 544-7); LOWER TERTIARY; MIOCENE SEDIMENTS; MULTI CHANNEL (MC); OCEANIC CRUSTS; OVERTHRUST; PALEOGENE; PLATE CONVERGENCE; REFLECTION SEISMIC; SEDIMENTARY LAYERS; SEDIMENTARY STRUCTURES; SEISMIC ENERGY; SEISMIC IMAGING; SOUTH CHINA SEA (SCS); SOUTHERN SOUTH CHINA SEA;

CURVE FITTING; DATA STRUCTURES; GEOMETRICAL OPTICS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; SEDIMENTATION; SEISMIC WAVES; SEISMOLOGY; STRATIGRAPHY;

SEDIMENTOLOGY;

CARBONATE PLATFORM; COLLISION ZONE; CONTINENTAL MARGIN; DEFORMATION MECHANISM; IMBRICATION; MIOCENE; PALEOGENE; PLATE CONVERGENCE; SEISMIC DATA; SEISMIC REFLECTION; SEISMIC REFRACTION; TECTONOSTRATIGRAPHY; THRUST FAULT; VELOCITY STRUCTURE;

ASIA; BORNEO; EURASIA; MALAY ARCHIPELAGO; PACIFIC OCEAN; SOUTH CHINA SEA; SOUTHEAST ASIA;

EID: 45649085128     PISSN: 02648172     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.marpetgeo.2007.11.004     Document Type: Article

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