Growth of normal faults in multilayer sequences: A 3D seismic case study from the Egersund Basin, Norwegian North Sea

Journal of Structural Geology

Volumn 55, Issue , 2013, Pages 1-20

  Tvedt, Anette B M ^a   Rotevatn, Atle ^a   Jackson, Christopher A L ^b   Fossen, Haakon ^a   Gawthorpe, Robert L ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BERGEN   (Norway)

^b IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Expansion index; Fault linkage; Fault reactivation; Salt tectonics; Throw length distribution; Vertical throw distribution

Indexed keywords

3D REFLECTION SEISMIC; DRIVING MECHANISM; EXPANSION INDEX; EXTENSIONAL FAULTS; FAULT REACTIVATION; KINEMATIC COUPLINGS; THROW-LENGTH DISTRIBUTION; VERTICAL THROW-DISTRIBUTION;

FAULTING; KINEMATICS; NUCLEATION; SALT TECTONICS; SEISMOLOGY; STRUCTURAL GEOLOGY;

THREE DIMENSIONAL;

BASIN EVOLUTION; EXTENSIONAL TECTONICS; FAULT DISPLACEMENT; FAULT GEOMETRY; FAULT PROPAGATION; FAULTING; NORMAL FAULT; NUCLEATION; SEISMIC DATA; SEISMIC REFLECTION; STRUCTURAL CONTROL; TECTONIC EVOLUTION; TRIASSIC; VERTICAL DISTRIBUTION;

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

EID: 84884373636     PISSN: 01918141     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jsg.2013.08.002     Document Type: Article

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