Temporal and spatial development of a gravity-driven normal fault array: Middle-Upper Jurassic, South Viking Graben, northern North Sea

Journal of Structural Geology

Volumn 31, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 388-402

  Jackson, C A L ^a   Larsen, E ^b  

^a IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b STATOIL   (Norway)

Author keywords

Gravity driven deformation; Late Jurassic; Normal faulting; North Sea; Rift basin; Syn rift

Indexed keywords

GRAVITY-DRIVEN DEFORMATION; LATE JURASSIC; NORMAL FAULTING; NORTH SEA; RIFT BASIN; SYN-RIFT;

DEFORMATION; STRUCTURAL GEOLOGY; TECTONICS; THREE DIMENSIONAL;

GRAVITATIONAL EFFECTS;

ACTIVE FAULT; DEFORMATION; EXTENSIONAL TECTONICS; FAULTING; JURASSIC; KINEMATICS; NORMAL FAULT; PASSIVE MARGIN;

ATLANTIC OCEAN; NORTH SEA; VIKING GRABEN;

EID: 64049110260     PISSN: 01918141     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jsg.2009.01.007     Document Type: Article

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