Sedimentary and structural control on pockmark development-evidence from the Nyegga pockmark field, NW European margin

Geo-Marine Letters

Volumn 30, Issue 3-4, 2010, Pages 221-230

  Hjelstuen, Berit Oline ^a   Haflidason, Haflidi ^a   Sejrup, Hans Petter ^a   Nygård, Atle ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BERGEN   (Norway)

^b STATOIL   (Norway)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BOTTOM SIMULATING REFLECTOR; COMPLEX EVOLUTIONS; CONTINENTAL MARGIN; DATA SETS; GEOLOGICAL SETTING; HIGH RESOLUTION; MIOCENE; MULTI-CHANNEL SEISMIC; OLIGOCENE; PLIO-PLEISTOCENE; SEDIMENT CORE; SEDIMENTATION RATES; SEISMIC PROFILES; STRUCTURAL CONTROL; WATER DEPTH;

GAS HYDRATES; SEDIMENTATION; SEISMIC WAVES; SEISMOLOGY; STRUCTURAL DYNAMICS;

SEDIMENTOLOGY;

GAS HYDRATE; POCKMARK; SEDIMENTATION RATE; SEISMIC REFLECTION; SEISMOTECTONICS; STRUCTURAL CONTROL; TECTONIC EVOLUTION; TECTONIC SETTING; VERTICAL SEISMIC PROFILE;

ATLANTIC OCEAN; NORTHWEST EUROPEAN SHELF;

EID: 77952958612     PISSN: 02760460     EISSN: 14321157     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00367-009-0172-4     Document Type: Article

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