Seismic imaging of 'broken bridges': Linking seismic to outcrop-scale investigations of intrusive magma lobes

Journal of the Geological Society

Volumn 169, Issue 4, 2012, Pages 421-426

  Schofield, Nick ^a,b   Heaton, Lucy ^a,c   Holford, Simon P ^d   Archer, Stuart G ^a   Jackson, Christopher A L ^e   Jolley, David W ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ABERDEEN   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BIRMINGHAM   (United Kingdom)

^c Senergy Ternan House   (United Kingdom)

^d UNIVERSITY OF ADELAIDE   (Australia)

^e IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DATA SETS; KEY LINKS; MAGMA FLOW; MAGMA FLOW DIRECTION; NORTH ATLANTIC; SCALE-INVARIANT; SEISMIC DATAS; SEISMIC IMAGING; THREE DIMENSIONS;

SEISMOLOGY;

DATA SET; EMPLACEMENT; HOST ROCK; IMAGING METHOD; MAGMA; OUTCROP; SEISMIC DATA; SEISMIC METHOD; SILL; THREE-DIMENSIONAL MODELING;

ATLANTIC OCEAN; ATLANTIC OCEAN (NORTH); FAROE BASIN; SHETLAND BASIN;

EID: 84863917819     PISSN: 00167649     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1144/0016-76492011-150     Document Type: Article

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