Offshore prolongation of Caledonian structures and basement characterisation in the western Barents Sea from geophysical modelling

Tectonophysics

Volumn 470, Issue 1-2, 2009, Pages 71-88

  Barrere C ^a,b   Ebbing, J ^a,b   Gernigon, L ^a  

^a GEOLOGICAL SURVEY OF NORWAY   (Norway)

^b NORWEGIAN UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Norway)

Author keywords

2D modelling; Barents Sea; Basement characterisation; Caledonides; Gravity anomaly; Magnetic anomaly

Indexed keywords

2D MODELLING; BARENTS SEA; BASEMENT CHARACTERISATION; CALEDONIDES; GRAVITY ANOMALY; MAGNETIC ANOMALY;

EARTHQUAKE EFFECTS; GRAVITATIONAL EFFECTS; MAGNETIC MATERIALS; MAGNETIC SUSCEPTIBILITY; MAGNETISM; SEISMOLOGY; STRUCTURAL GEOLOGY;

BUILDINGS;

CRUSTAL STRUCTURE; FORWARD MODELING; MAGNETIC ANOMALY; MAGNETIC SURVEY; MAGNETIC SUSCEPTIBILITY; POTENTIAL FIELD;

ARCTIC OCEAN; BARENTS SEA; CALEDONIDES; EURASIA; EUROPE;

EID: 67349258963     PISSN: 00401951     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.tecto.2008.07.012     Document Type: Article

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