Lithospheric structure along the Queen Charlotte margin in western Canada: Constraints from flexural modeling

Geo-Marine Letters

Volumn 17, Issue 1, 1997, Pages 94-99

  Prims, J ^a,d   Furlong, K P ^a   Rohr, K M M ^b   Govers, R ^c  

^a PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b PACIFIC GEOSCIENCE CENTRE   (Canada)

^c UTRECHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^d CSIC   (Spain)

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EID: 0001959723     PISSN: 02760460     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s003670050013     Document Type: Article

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