Coincident vibroseis and dynamite surveys across the western flank of the Trans-Hudson Orogen

Tectonophysics

Volumn 264, Issue 1-4, 1996, Pages 101-109

  Bezdán, Sándor ^a   Hajnal, Zoltan ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SASKATCHEWAN   (Canada)

Author keywords

Deep crustal structures; Seismic sources

Indexed keywords

CRUSTAL STRUCTURE; DYNAMITE SURVEY; MOHO; SEISMIC REFLECTION; VIBROSEIS SURVEY;

CANADA, MANITOBA, TRANS-HUDSON OROGEN; CANADA, SASKATCHEWAN, TRANS-HUDSON OROGEN;

EID: 0030441951     PISSN: 00401951     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0040-1951(96)00120-5     Document Type: Article

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