Imaging magmatic rocks on the Faroes margin

Petroleum Geology Conference Proceedings

Volumn 6, Issue 0, 2005, Pages 755-766

  Roberts, A W ^a,c   White, R S ^a,c   Lunnon, Z C ^a,c   Christie, P A F ^b,c   Spitzer, R ^a,c   Kusznir, N J ^c   Roberts, A M ^c   Hurst, N ^c   Parkin, C J ^c   Smith, L K ^c   Tymms, V ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

^b SCHLUMBERGER CAMBRIDGE RESEARCH   (United Kingdom)

^c ISIMM Team ^*  (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Basalts; Continent ocean boundary; Faroe Islands; Magmatism; Ocean bottom seismometers; Rifting

Indexed keywords

EID: 80052519251     PISSN: 20479921     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1144/0060755     Document Type: Conference Paper

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