Palaeozoic to tertiary rift and basin dynamics: Mid-Norway to the bay of biscay - A new context for hydrocarbon prospectivity in the deep water frontier

Petroleum Geology Conference Proceedings

Volumn 5, Issue 0, 1999, Pages 7-40

  Roberts, D G ^a   Thompson, M ^a   Mitchener, B ^a   Hossack, J ^a   Carmichael, S ^a   Bjornseth H M ^a  

^a BP EXPLORATION   (United Kingdom)

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