A structural study of western Anticosti Island, St. Lawrence platform, Québec: A fracture analysis that integrates surface and subsurface structural data

Bulletin of Canadian Petroleum Geology

Volumn 58, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 36-55

  Bordet, Esther ^a,c   Malo, Michel ^a   Kirkwood, Donna ^b  

^a CENTRE EAU TERRE ENVIRONNEMENT   (Canada)

^b GEOLOGICAL SURVEY OF CANADA   (Canada)

^c UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACADIAN OROGENY; ATLANTIC OCEAN; BURIAL HISTORY; DEFORMATION FRONT; DEVONIANS; DIGITAL ELEVATION MODEL; EXTENSIONAL STRESS; FAULT ORIENTATIONS; FIELD DATA; FRACTURE ANALYSIS; FRACTURE SYSTEMS; FRACTURE ZONE; ISOSTATIC REBOUND; JURASSIC; LATE ORDOVICIAN; MIDDLE DEVONIAN; NORMAL FAULTS; ORDOVICIAN; OROGENIC EVENTS; ORTHOGONAL SYSTEMS; PETROLEUM GENERATION; PETROLEUM MIGRATION; POTENTIAL RESERVOIR; SEISMIC REFLECTION DATA; STRUCTURAL DATA; STRUCTURAL FEATURE; STRUCTURAL STUDIES; TEMPORAL RELATIONSHIPS; THERMAL MATURATION;

GLACIAL GEOLOGY; PETROLEUM RESERVOIRS; REMOTE SENSING; STRUCTURAL GEOLOGY; TECTONICS;

FRACTURE;

ACADIAN; DIGITAL ELEVATION MODEL; DIKE; FAULT ZONE; FIELDWORK; FOLD; FRACTURE ZONE; GLACIATION; HYDROCARBON RESERVOIR; JURASSIC; OROGENY; PALEOZOIC; PETROLEUM; QUATERNARY; RADAR; REMOTE SENSING; SEISMIC REFLECTION; SPATIOTEMPORAL ANALYSIS; THERMAL MATURITY;

ANTICOSTI ISLAND; APPALACHIANS; ATLANTIC OCEAN; CANADA; GULF OF SAINT LAWRENCE; QUEBEC [CANADA];

EID: 77956943561     PISSN: 00074802     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2113/gscpgbull.58.1.36     Document Type: Article

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