Mobile evaporite controls on the structural style and evolution of rift basins: Danish Central Graben, North Sea

Basin Research

Volumn 25, Issue 3, 2013, Pages 310-330

  Duffy, Oliver B ^a   Gawthorpe, Rob L ^b   Docherty, Matthew ^c   Brocklehurst, Simon H ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MANCHESTER   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BERGEN   (Norway)

^c MAERSK OIL   (Denmark)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BASIN EVOLUTION; DEPOCENTER; DEPOSITIONAL SEQUENCE; EVAPORITE; FAULT GEOMETRY; FOLDING; GRABEN; RIFT ZONE; SPATIAL VARIATION; STRUCTURAL CONTROL; ZECHSTEIN;

ATLANTIC OCEAN; DANISH CENTRAL TROUGH; NORTH SEA;

EID: 84878147672     PISSN: 0950091X     EISSN: 13652117     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/bre.12000     Document Type: Article

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