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Flood basalt facies from borehole data: implications for prospectivity and volcanology in volcanic rifted margins (2009)
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Nelson, C. E., Jerram, D. A., & Hobbs, R. W. (2009). Flood basalt facies from borehole data: implications for prospectivity and volcanology in volcanic rifted margins. Petroleum Geoscience, 15(4), 313-324. https://doi.org/10.1144/1354-079309-842

Flood basalt successions cover many. potentially prospective sedimentary basins world-wide, and a few instances exist of intra-basalt petroleum discoveries. However, little is known about the architecture and rock propel-ties of the lava flows, intru... Read More about Flood basalt facies from borehole data: implications for prospectivity and volcanology in volcanic rifted margins.

Seismic structure, gravity anomalies, and flexure of the Amazon continental margin, NE Brazil. (2009)
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Watts, A., Rodger, M., Greenroyd, C., Peirce, C., & Hobbs, R. (2009). Seismic structure, gravity anomalies, and flexure of the Amazon continental margin, NE Brazil. Journal of Geophysical Research, 114(B7), Article B07103. https://doi.org/10.1029/2008jb006259

[1] Seismic and gravity data have been used to determine the structure of the sediments, crust, and upper mantle that underlie the Amazon continental margin, offshore NE Brazil. Seismic reflection profile data reveal a major unconformity at ∼7 s two-... Read More about Seismic structure, gravity anomalies, and flexure of the Amazon continental margin, NE Brazil..

Crustal structure of the French Guiana margin, West Equatorial Atlantic (2007)
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Greenroyd, C., Peirce, C., Rodger, M., Watts, A., & Hobbs, R. (2007). Crustal structure of the French Guiana margin, West Equatorial Atlantic. Geophysical Journal International, 169(3), 964-987. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1365-246x.2007.03372.x

Geophysical data from the Amazon Cone Experiment are used to determine the structure and evolution of the French Guiana and Northeast Brazil continental margin, and to better understand the origin and development of along-margin segmentation. A 427-k... Read More about Crustal structure of the French Guiana margin, West Equatorial Atlantic.

Evidence for unusually thin oceanic crust and strong mantle beneath the Amazon fan (2006)
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Rodger, M., Watts, A., Greenroyd, C., Peirce, C., & Hobbs, R. (2006). Evidence for unusually thin oceanic crust and strong mantle beneath the Amazon fan. Geology, 34(12), 1081-1084. https://doi.org/10.1130/g22966a.1

We used seismic and gravity data to determine the structure of the crust and mantle beneath the Amazon Fan. Seismic data suggest that the crust is of oceanic-type and is unusually thin (<4 km) compared to elsewhere in the Atlantic. We attribute the t...

Seismic reflection images of the Moho underlying melt sills at the East Pacific Rise (2006)
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melt sills at the East Pacific Rise. Nature, 442, 287-290. https://doi.org/10.1038/nature04939

The determination of melt distribution in the crust and the nature of the crust–mantle boundary (the ‘Moho’) is fundamental to the understanding of crustal accretion processes at oceanic spreading centres. Upper-crustal magma chambers have been image... Read More about Seismic reflection images of the Moho underlying melt sills at the East Pacific Rise.

The effects of three-dimensional structure on two-dimensional images of crustal seismic sections and on the interpretation of shear zone morphology (2006)
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Hobbs, R., Drummond, B., & Goleby, B. (2006). The effects of three-dimensional structure on two-dimensional images of crustal seismic sections and on the interpretation of shear zone morphology. Geophysical Journal International, 164(3), 490-500. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1365-246x.2006.02814.x

Crustal scale seismic images provide information on the geometry of subsurface structure. In this paper we examine shear zones as they provide geometrical constraints on the evolution of the crust and as they provide pathways for the migration of min... Read More about The effects of three-dimensional structure on two-dimensional images of crustal seismic sections and on the interpretation of shear zone morphology.

Long Meg: Rock Art Recording Using 3D Laser Scanning (2005)
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Díaz-Andreu, M., Hobbs, R., Rosser, N., Sharpe, K., & Trinks, I. (2005). Long Meg: Rock Art Recording Using 3D Laser Scanning

This article focuses on the results obtained from the laser scanning recording of the Long Meg standing stone (NY56933716, CCSMR6154, NMR 23663) (Cumbria). This recording is result of the project “Breaking through rock art recording: three dimensiona... Read More about Long Meg: Rock Art Recording Using 3D Laser Scanning.

Towards the Virtual Outcrop. (2005)
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Clegg, P., Trinks, I., McCaffrey, K., Holdsworth, R., Jones, R., Hobbs, R., & Waggott, S. (2005). Towards the Virtual Outcrop. Geoscientist, 15(1), 8-9

The role of Mesozoic rifting in the opening of the NE Atlantic: Evidence from deep seismic profiling across the Faroe-Shetland Trough (2005)
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England, R., McBride, J., & Hobbs, R. (2005). The role of Mesozoic rifting in the opening of the NE Atlantic: Evidence from deep seismic profiling across the Faroe-Shetland Trough. Journal of the Geological Society, 162(4), 661-674. https://doi.org/10.1144/0016-764904-076

The FAST deep seismic reflection profile traverses the whole width of the Faroe–Shetland Trough. The principal target of the profile was the structure of the crust beneath the Faroe basalts. In this region, bright reflections are seen from between 7... Read More about The role of Mesozoic rifting in the opening of the NE Atlantic: Evidence from deep seismic profiling across the Faroe-Shetland Trough.

Crustal structure of the NE Rockall Trough from wide-angle seismic data modeling (2005)
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Klingelhöfer, F., Edwards, R., Hobbs, R., & England, R. (2005). Crustal structure of the NE Rockall Trough from wide-angle seismic data modeling. Journal of Geophysical Research, 110(B11), Article B11105. https://doi.org/10.1029/2005jb003763

Two wide-angle seismic lines located in the northern Rockall Trough were acquired in May 2000. One line (line E) crosses the trough from the continental shelf off Lewis to normal oceanic crust west of Lousy Bank in NW-SE direction. The other line (li... Read More about Crustal structure of the NE Rockall Trough from wide-angle seismic data modeling.

Putting the geology back into Earth models (2005)
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McCaffrey, K., Holdsworth, R., Imber, J., Clegg, P., De Paola, N., Jones, R., …Trinks, I. (2005). Putting the geology back into Earth models. Eos, Transactions American Geophysical Union, 86(46), 461-466. https://doi.org/10.1029/2005eo460001

New digital methods for data capture can now provide photorealistic, spatially precise, and geometrically accurate three-dimensional (3-D) models of rocks exposed at the Earth's surface [Xu et al., 2000; Pringle et al., 2001; Clegg et al., 2005]. The... Read More about Putting the geology back into Earth models.

The effects of out-of-plane seismic energy on reflections in crustal-scale 2D seismic sections (2004)
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Drummond, B., Hobbs, R., & Goleby, B. (2004). The effects of out-of-plane seismic energy on reflections in crustal-scale 2D seismic sections. Tectonophysics, 388(1-4), 213-224. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.tecto.2004.07.040

Crustal-scale seismic surveys mostly collect data along single profiles, and the data processing has an underlying assumption that the data have imaged two-dimension (2D) structure striking at right angles to the seismic profile. However, even small... Read More about The effects of out-of-plane seismic energy on reflections in crustal-scale 2D seismic sections.