Structure of the Hatton basin and adjacent continental margin

Petroleum Geology Conference Proceedings

Volumn 6, Issue 0, 2005, Pages 947-956

  Smith, L K ^a   White, R S ^b   Kusznir, N J ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LIVERPOOL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Continental stretching; Hatton Bank; Hatton Basin; Magmatism; Ocean bottom seismometers; Rifted margin

Indexed keywords

EID: 80052539734     PISSN: 20479921     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1144/0060947     Document Type: Conference Paper

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