Virtual fieldtrips for petroleum geoscientists

Petroleum Geology Conference Proceedings

Volumn 7, Issue 0, 2010, Pages 19-26

  McCaffrey, K J W ^a   Hodgetts, D ^b   Howell, J ^c   Hunt, D ^d   Imber, J ^a   Jones, R R ^a   Tomasso, M ^e   Thurmond, J ^d   Viseur, S ^f  

^a DURHAM UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MANCHESTER   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF BERGEN   (Norway)

^d STATOIL   (Norway)

^e UNIVERSITY OF WYOMING   (United States)

^f AIX MARSEILLE UNIVERSITY   (France)

Author keywords

Analogue model; Fieldwork; Laser scanning; Lidar; Virtual outcrops

Indexed keywords

EID: 80052527469     PISSN: 20479921     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1144/0070019     Document Type: Conference Paper

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