Ocean bottom seismometer investigations in the Ormen Lange area offshore mid-Norway provide evidence for shallow gas layers in subsurface sediments

Ormen Lange - An Integrated Study for Safe Field Development in the Storegga Submarine Area

Volumn , Issue , 2005, Pages 287-297

  Mienert, Jürgen ^a   Bünz, Stefan ^a   Guidard, Stéphanie ^a   Vanneste, Maarten ^a   Berndt, Christian ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TROMSØ   (Norway)

^b NATIONAL OCEANOGRAPHY CENTRE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MID NORWAY; OCEAN BOTTOM SEISMOMETER; SHALLOW GAS LAYERS; SUBSURFACE SEDIMENTS;

EID: 84903109794     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1016/B978-0-08-044694-3.50028-7     Document Type: Chapter

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