Volcanic passive margin of Namibia: A potential fields perspective

Special Paper of the Geological Society of America

Volumn 362, Issue , 2002, Pages 203-220

  Corner, B ^a   Cartwright, J ^b   Swart, R ^c  

^a Corner Geophysics Namibia Cc ^*  (Namibia)

^b CARDIFF UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^c NAMCOR (NatlPetrolCorpof Namibia)   (Namibia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BASALT; GRAVITATION; HYDROGEOLOGY; OFFSHORE OIL WELL PRODUCTION; PILES; SEISMOLOGY; VOLCANOES;

AEROMAGNETIC DATA; AEROMAGNETIC SURVEYS; BOUGUER GRAVITY DATUM; DENSITY CONTRIBUTION; FORWARD MODELING; GRAVITY ANOMALIES; MAGNETIC ANOMALIES; VOLCANIC COMPLEX;

MAGNETISM;

AEROMAGNETIC SURVEY; GRAVITY ANOMALY; PASSIVE MARGIN; POTENTIAL FIELD; TECTONIC EVOLUTION; VOLCANIC ERUPTION;

EID: 84870947056     PISSN: 00721077     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1130/0-8137-2362-0.203     Document Type: Article

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