Enigmatic large-scale furrows of Miocene to Pliocene age from the central North Sea: Current-scoured pockmarks?

Geo-Marine Letters

Volumn 31, Issue 5-6, 2011, Pages 437-449

  Kilhams, Ben ^a   McArthur, Adam ^a   Huuse, Mads ^b   Ita, Eyita ^a   Hartley, Adrian ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ABERDEEN   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MANCHESTER   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

3D SEISMIC; ACOUSTIC DISTURBANCES; CIRCULAR STRUCTURES; COMPLEX GEOMETRIES; CRATER FORMATION; CROSSSECTIONAL GEOMETRY; CURRENT SYSTEM; DEEPWATER; HYDROCARBON INDUSTRY; LATE MIOCENE; MIOCENE; NEO GENES; NORTH SEA; PLIOCENE; SEISMIC DATAS; SILTSTONES; STUDY AREAS; THREE-DIMENSIONAL (3D); VELOCITY MODEL; WELL DATA;

ASSOCIATED GAS; GEOMETRY; HYDROCARBONS; METALS; STRATIGRAPHY; STRINGERS; THREE DIMENSIONAL;

SEISMOLOGY;

BOTTOM CURRENT; CROSS SECTION; GEOMETRY; MIOCENE; NEOGENE; NUMERICAL MODEL; PLIOCENE; POCKMARK; SEISMIC DATA; SEISMIC STRATIGRAPHY; SLOPE; THREE-DIMENSIONAL MODELING;

ATLANTIC OCEAN; NORTH SEA;

EID: 82655180899     PISSN: 02760460     EISSN: 14321157     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00367-011-0235-1     Document Type: Article

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