Interactions between submarine channel systems and deformation in deepwater fold belts: Examples from the Levant Basin, Eastern Mediterranean sea

Marine and Petroleum Geology

Volumn 26, Issue 8, 2009, Pages 1465-1482

  Clark, Ian R ^a   Cartwright, Joseph A ^a  

^a CARDIFF UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

3D seismic; Channel levee systems; Nile delta; Salt tectonics; Sediment structure interactions

Indexed keywords

3D SEISMIC; CHANNEL LEVEE SYSTEMS; COMPRESSIONAL DEFORMATION; DEEP-MARINE; DEEPWATER; EASTERN MEDITERRANEAN SEA; EVAPORITES; FOLD BELTS; FOLD-AND-THRUST BELTS; HYDROCARBON RESERVOIR; LEVANT BASIN; LEVEE SYSTEM; MESSINIAN; NILE DELTA; SALT TECTONICS; STRIKE-SLIP FAULT; STRUCTURE INTERACTIONS; STUDY AREAS; SUBMARINE CHANNEL;

DEFORMATION; HYDROCARBONS; LEVEES; SALINITY MEASUREMENT; SEDIMENTOLOGY; SEISMOLOGY; SUBMARINES; TECTONICS; THREE DIMENSIONAL;

STRUCTURAL GEOLOGY;

COMPRESSION; CONFINING PRESSURE; DEEP WATER FORMATION; DEFLECTION; DEFORMATION MECHANISM; FOLD AND THRUST BELT; FOLD BELT; GEOMORPHOLOGY; HYDROCARBON RESERVOIR; LEVEE; SALT TECTONICS; SEISMIC DATA; STRIKE-SLIP FAULT; SUBMARINE CHANNEL; TECTONIC SETTING; THREE-DIMENSIONAL MODELING;

LEVANTINE SEA; MEDITERRANEAN SEA;

EID: 67650269375     PISSN: 02648172     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.marpetgeo.2009.05.004     Document Type: Article

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