New insights into the basement structure of the West Siberian Basin from forward and inverse modeling of GRACE satellite gravity data

Journal of Geophysical Research: Solid Earth

Volumn 114, Issue 6, 2009, Pages

  Braitenberg, C ^b   Ebbing, J ^a,c  

^a NORWEGIAN UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Norway)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TRIESTE   (Italy)

^c GEOLOGICAL SURVEY OF NORWAY   (Norway)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARCH; CRATON; CRUSTAL THICKNESS; DENSITY; DEPTH DETERMINATION; FLOOD BASALT; GAS FIELD; GRABEN; GRAVITY FIELD; GRAVITY SURVEY; HISTORICAL CARTOGRAPHY; INVERSE ANALYSIS; ISOPACH MAP; LOWER CRUST; MASS EXTINCTION; OIL PLATFORM; PERMIAN-TRIASSIC BOUNDARY; RIFT ZONE; SATELLITE DATA;

EURASIA; SIBERIA; SIBERIAN LOWLAND;

EID: 70349428491     PISSN: 21699313     EISSN: 21699356     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2008JB005799     Document Type: Article

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