Salt tectonics and sedimentation along Atlantic margins: Insights from seismic interpretation and physical models

Memoir of the Geological Society of America

Volumn 193, Issue , 2001, Pages 131-151

  Mohriak, Webster Ueipass ^a   Szatmari, Peter ^a  

^a PETROBRAS   (Brazil)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BUILDINGS; FAULT SLIPS; GEODYNAMICS; PETROLEUM PROSPECTING; SEDIMENTOLOGY; SEISMOLOGY; SETTLING TANKS; STRATIGRAPHY;

COMPARATIVE ANALYSIS; COMPLEX STRUCTURE; DEEPWATER REGIONS; EXTENSIONAL TECTONICS; GEODYNAMIC EVOLUTION; PETROLEUM EXPLORATION; SEDIMENTARY BASIN; SEISMIC INTERPRETATION;

SALT TECTONICS;

DIP-SLIP FAULT; EXTENSIONAL TECTONICS; PETROLEUM HYDROCARBON; SALT TECTONICS; SANDBAR; SEDIMENTARY BASIN; SEDIMENTATION; SEISMIC DATA;

ATLANTIC OCEAN; GULF OF MEXICO;

EID: 79954426119     PISSN: 00721069     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1130/0-8137-1193-2.131     Document Type: Article

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