Mjølnir Structure, Barents Sea: A marine impact crater laboratory

Special Paper of the Geological Society of America

Volumn 339, Issue , 1999, Pages 193-204

  Tsikalas, Filippos ^a   Gudlaugsson, Steinar Thor ^a,b   Faleide, Jan Inge ^a   Eldholm, Olav ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OSLO   (Norway)

^b National Energy Directorate   (Iceland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANALYTICAL GEOCHEMISTRY; DEFORMATION; GEOPHYSICS; SEDIMENTARY ROCKS; SEDIMENTOLOGY; SETTLING TANKS; STRUCTURAL GEOLOGY;

ENVIRONMENTAL DISTURBANCES; GEOCHEMICAL ANALYSIS; GEOPHYSICAL ANALYSIS; GRAVITATIONAL COLLAPSE; IMPACT INDICATORS; PRESENCE OF WATER; SEDIMENTARY BASIN; STRUCTURAL MODIFICATIONS;

METEOR IMPACTS;

COLLAPSE STRUCTURE; CRATER; DEFORMATION MECHANISM; EJECTA; ENERGY EFFICIENCY; ENVIRONMENTAL DISTURBANCE; GRAIN SIZE; METEORITE; QUARTZ VEIN; RELIEF;

ARCTIC OCEAN; BARENTS SEA; MJOLNIR CRATER;

EID: 84870877770     PISSN: 00721077     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1130/0-8137-2339-6.193     Document Type: Article

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