Collapse, infilling, and postimpact deformation at the Mjolnir impact structure, Barents Sea

Bulletin of the Geological Society of America

Volumn 110, Issue 5, 1998, Pages 537-552

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

^a UNIVERSITY OF OSLO   (Norway)

^b National Energy Directorate   (Iceland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FAULTING; SEISMIC WAVES; SEISMOLOGY; STRATIGRAPHY;

DENSE COMPOSITES; DIFFERENTIAL SUBSIDENCE; GRAVITATIONAL COLLAPSE; IMPACT STRUCTURES; MULTICHANNEL SEISMIC REFLECTION PROFILES; SEISMIC REFLECTIVITY; SHARP BOUNDARIES; STRUCTURAL FEATURE;

DEFORMATION;

DEFORMATION; IMPACT STRUCTURE; SEISMIC REFLECTION; STRATIGRAPHY;

BARENTS SEA;

EID: 84879888002     PISSN: 00167606     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1130/0016-7606(1998)110<0537:CIAPDA>2.3.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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