New compilation of top basement and basement thickness for the Norwegian continental shelf reveals the segmentation of the passive margin system

Petroleum Geology Conference Proceedings

Volumn 7, Issue 0, 2010, Pages 885-897

  Ebbing, J ^a,b   Olesen, O ^a  

^a GEOLOGICAL SURVEY OF NORWAY   (Norway)

^b NORWEGIAN UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Norway)

Author keywords

Basement; Caledonian; Continental shelf; Onshore offshore; Potential fields; Precambrian

Indexed keywords

EID: 80052546790     PISSN: 20479921     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1144/0070885     Document Type: Conference Paper

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