Seismic image of an early Proterozoic rift basin

Tectonophysics

Volumn 264, Issue 1-4, 1996, Pages 89-100

  Milkereit, Bernd ^a,c   Wu, Jianjun ^a,b  

^a GEOLOGICAL SURVEY OF CANADA   (Canada)

^b Pulsonic Corporation   (Canada)

^c UNIVERSITY OF KIEL   (Germany)

Author keywords

Crustal structure; Reflection seismics; Rift; Temagami Lake magnetic anomaly

Indexed keywords

CRUSTAL STRUCTURE; MAGNETIC ANOMALY; PROTEROZOIC; RIFT BASIN; SEISMIC REFLECTION;

CANADA, CANADIAN SHIELD;

EID: 0030440364     PISSN: 00401951     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0040-1951(96)00119-9     Document Type: Article

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