Understanding the offshore flood basalt sequence using onshore volcanic facies analogues: An example from the Faroe-Shetland basin

Geological Magazine

Volumn 146, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 353-367

  Jerram, Dougal A ^a   Single, Richard T ^a,b   Hobbs, Richard W ^a   Nelson, Catherine E ^a  

^a DURHAM UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b Det norske oljeselskap ASA   (Norway)

Author keywords

British Tertiary; Hyaloclastite; Lava sequences; LIP

Indexed keywords

FLOODS; OFFSHORE OIL WELL PRODUCTION; SEISMOLOGY; VOLCANOES;

BRITISH TERTIARY; CHARACTERISTIC PROPERTIES; GEOLOGICAL INTERPRETATION; HYALOCLASTITE; LAVA SEQUENCES; NORTH ATLANTIC IGNEOUS PROVINCE; REFLECTION SEISMOLOGY; VOLCANIC SUCCESSIONS;

BASALT;

CONTINENTAL MARGIN; FLOOD BASALT; HYALOCLASTITE; IGNEOUS PROVINCE; LAVA FLOW; RIFTING; SEISMOLOGY; TERTIARY; VOLCANIC ROCK; VOLCANISM;

ATLANTIC ISLANDS; ATLANTIC OCEAN; FAROE BASIN; FAROE ISLANDS; SHETLAND BASIN;

EID: 70349193677     PISSN: 00167568     EISSN: 14695081     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S0016756809005974     Document Type: Article

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