Heterogeneous exhumation in the Inner Moray Firth, UK North Sea: Constraints from new AFTA® and seismic data

Journal of the Geological Society

Volumn 159, Issue 6, 2002, Pages 715-729

  Argent, J D ^a   Stewart, S A ^a   Green, P F ^a   Underhill, J R ^a  

^a Amerada Hess Corporation   (United States)

Author keywords

AFTA; Exhumation; Inversion tectonics; Moray Firth; Source rocks

Indexed keywords

BASIN EVOLUTION; CENOZOIC; EXHUMATION; FISSION TRACK DATING; SEISMICITY; SOURCE ROCK; VITRINITE REFLECTANCE;

NORTH SEA;

EID: 84862757542     PISSN: 00167649     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1144/0016-764901-141     Document Type: Article

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