Style and age of deformation in the NW Persian Gulf

Petroleum Geoscience

Volumn 16, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 31-39

  Soleimany, Bahman ^a,b   Sàbat, Francesc ^b  

^a NATIONAL IRANIAN OIL COMPANY   (Iran)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BARCELONA   (Spain)

Author keywords

Arabian trend; Late cenozoic; Late cretaceous folds; Zagros foreland; Zagros trend

Indexed keywords

LATE CENOZOIC; LATE CRETACEOUS; OIL AND GAS FIELDS; PERSIAN GULF; SEISMIC SECTIONS; STUDY AREAS;

OIL FIELDS; SPONTANEOUS EMISSION;

GAS INDUSTRY;

CENOZOIC; CRETACEOUS; DEFORMATION; FOLDING; FORELAND BASIN; GAS FIELD; OIL FIELD;

ARABIAN SEA; INDIAN OCEAN; PERSIAN GULF; ZAGROS;

EID: 77949365091     PISSN: 13540793     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1144/1354-079309-837     Document Type: Article

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