Imaging igneous rocks on the North Atlantic rifted continental margin

Geophysical Journal International

Volumn 179, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 1024-1038

  Roberts, A W ^a   White, R S ^a   Christie, P A F ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

^b SCHLUMBERGER CAMBRIDGE RESEARCH   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Atlantic Ocean; Continental margins: divergent; Controlled source seismology; Crustal structure; Europe; Seismic tomography

Indexed keywords

BASALT; CONTINENTAL MARGIN; CRUSTAL STRUCTURE; CRUSTAL THICKNESS; DATA ACQUISITION; IMAGING METHOD; LOWER CRUST; RIFTING; SEISMIC REFLECTION; SEISMIC SOURCE; SEISMIC TOMOGRAPHY; SEISMIC VELOCITY; SEISMOGRAPH; SEISMOLOGY;

ATLANTIC ISLANDS; ATLANTIC OCEAN; ATLANTIC OCEAN (NORTH); EURASIA; EUROPE; FAROE ISLANDS;

EID: 70349989092     PISSN: 0956540X     EISSN: 1365246X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-246X.2009.04306.x     Document Type: Article

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