North Oman fault geometries in outcrops, analogues and subsurface

Geological Society Special Publication

Volumn 392, Issue 1, 2014, Pages 447-460

  Richard, Pascal ^a   Bazalgette, Loic ^b   Al Kindi, Mohammed ^b  

^a SHELL GLOBAL SOLUTIONS INTERNATIONAL B V   (United States)

^b PETROLEUM DEVELOPMENT OMAN   (Oman)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CARBONATE; DATA INTERPRETATION; FAULT GEOMETRY; FAULT ZONE; HYDROCARBON RESERVOIR; NUMERICAL MODEL; OUTCROP; SEISMIC DATA; SEISMOLOGY; THREE-DIMENSIONAL MODELING;

OMAN;

EID: 84895829527     PISSN: 03058719     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1144/SP392.21     Document Type: Article

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