Origin of an anhydrite sheath encircling a salt diapir and implications for the seismic imaging of steep-sided salt structures, Egersund Basin, Northern North Sea

Journal of the Geological Society

Volumn 169, Issue 5, 2012, Pages 593-599

  Jackson, Christopher A L ^a   Lewis, Matthew M ^a  

^a IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

3D SEISMIC; CAPROCK; METEORIC FLUIDS; NORTH SEA; SALT STRUCTURES; SEDIMENTARY BASIN; SEISMIC DATAS; SEISMIC IMAGING; SEISMIC REFLECTION DATA;

GROUNDWATER FLOW; LITHOLOGY; SALT TECTONICS; SEISMIC WAVES; SODIUM CHLORIDE;

SEISMOLOGY;

ANHYDRITE; CAP ROCK; CONTINENTAL MARGIN; DEPOSITIONAL ENVIRONMENT; IMAGING METHOD; SALT DOME; SEDIMENTARY BASIN; SEISMIC DATA; SEISMIC MIGRATION; SEISMIC REFLECTION; SEISMOLOGY;

ATLANTIC OCEAN; EGERSUND; NORTH SEA; NORWAY; ROGALAND;

EID: 84865967841     PISSN: 00167649     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1144/0016-76492011-126     Document Type: Article

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