Magnetic basement study in the Barents Sea from inversion and forward modelling

Tectonophysics

Volumn 493, Issue 1-2, 2010, Pages 153-171

  Marello, Laura ^a,b   Ebbing, Jörg ^a,b   Gernigon, Laurent ^a  

^a GEOLOGICAL SURVEY OF NORWAY   (Norway)

^b NORWEGIAN UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Norway)

Author keywords

Barents Sea; Basement setting; Caledonian, Timanian and Uralian Orogeny; Forward modelling; Inversion modelling; Magnetic field

Indexed keywords

BARENTS SEA; BASEMENT SETTING; CALEDONIAN, TIMANIAN AND URALIAN OROGENY; FORWARD MODELLING; INVERSION MODELLING;

BUILDINGS; IMAGE ANALYSIS; MAGNETIC FIELDS;

THREE DIMENSIONAL;

BASEMENT ROCK; CALEDONIAN OROGENY; DATA INVERSION; GEOMAGNETIC FIELD; GEOMAGNETISM; IMAGE ANALYSIS; MAGNETIC ANOMALY; NUMERICAL MODEL; TWO-DIMENSIONAL MODELING;

ARCTIC OCEAN; BARENTS SEA;

EID: 77958050579     PISSN: 00401951     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.tecto.2010.07.014     Document Type: Article

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