Crustal structure beneath the Trøndelag Platform and adjacent areas of the mid-Norwegian margin, as derivedfrom wide-angle seismic and potential field data

Norsk Geologisk Tidsskrift

Volumn 90, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 141-161

  Breivik, Asbjørn Johan ^a   Mjelde, Rolf ^b   Raum, Thomas ^b   Faleide, Jan Inge ^a   Murai, Yoshio ^c   Flueh, Ernst R ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OSLO   (Norway)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BERGEN   (Norway)

^c HOKKAIDO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^d GEOMAR HELMHOLTZ CENTRE FOR OCEAN RESEARCH KIEL   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CALEDONIAN OROGENY; CONTINENTAL MARGIN; CONTINENTAL SHELF; CRUSTAL STRUCTURE; DETACHMENT FAULT; GRAVITY FIELD; MAGMATISM; OCEAN BOTTOM SEISMOMETER; P-WAVE; RAY TRACING; SEISMIC DATA; STRATIGRAPHY; TRIASSIC; UNDERPLATING;

FROAN; NORWAY; SOR TRONDELAG; TRONDELAG;

EID: 79959329469     PISSN: 0029196X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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