Flood basalt facies from borehole data: Implications for prospectivity and volcanology in volcanic rifted margins

Petroleum Geoscience

Volumn 15, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 313-324

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

^a DURHAM UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Faroe Islands; Lava flows; North Atlantic igneous province; Volcaniclastic; Wireline logs

Indexed keywords

FAROE ISLANDS; LAVA FLOWS; NORTH ATLANTIC IGNEOUS PROVINCE; VOLCANICLASTIC; WIRELINE LOGS;

BASALT; BOREHOLES; HYDROCARBONS; OFFSHORE PETROLEUM PROSPECTING; VOLCANOES;

WELL LOGGING;

BOREHOLE GEOPHYSICS; BOREHOLE LOGGING; CONTINENTAL MARGIN; FACIES ANALYSIS; FLOOD BASALT; HISTOGRAM; HYALOCLASTITE; HYDROCARBON EXPLORATION; IGNEOUS INTRUSION; LAVA FLOW; ROCK PROPERTY; SEDIMENTARY BASIN; VOLCANOLOGY;

ATLANTIC ISLANDS; ATLANTIC OCEAN; FAROE ISLANDS;

EID: 70350378821     PISSN: 13540793     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1144/1354-079309-842     Document Type: Article

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