Intra-basalt units and base of the volcanic succession east of the Faroe Islands exemplified by interpretation of offshore 3D seismic data

Petroleum Geology Conference Proceedings

Volumn 7, Issue 0, 2010, Pages 1033-1042

  Ellefsen, M ^a,b   Boldreel, L O ^a   Larsen, M ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COPENHAGEN   (Denmark)

^b DONG Energy AS   (Denmark)

Author keywords

3D seismic data; Basalts; Facies interpretation; Faroe Islands; Hyaloclastites; Volcanics

Indexed keywords

EID: 80052533448     PISSN: 20479921     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1144/0071033     Document Type: Conference Paper

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