Late Palaeozoic architecture and evolution of the southwestern Barents Sea: Insights from a new generation of aeromagnetic data

Journal of the Geological Society

Volumn 169, Issue 4, 2012, Pages 449-459

  Gernigon, Laurent ^a   Brönner, Marco ^a  

^a GEOLOGICAL SURVEY OF NORWAY   (Norway)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AEROMAGNETIC DATA; AEROMAGNETIC SURVEYS; BARENTS SEA; GEOLOGICAL MODELS; PALAEOZOIC; PERMIAN; RIFT SYSTEMS;

GEOLOGIC MODELS;

BUILDINGS;

AEROMAGNETIC SURVEY; BASIN EVOLUTION; CALEDONIAN OROGENY; PALEOCEANOGRAPHY; PALEOZOIC;

ARCTIC OCEAN; BARENTS SEA;

EID: 84863953253     PISSN: 00167649     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1144/0016-76492011-131     Document Type: Article

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