Upper mantle stratigraphy beneath the southern Slave craton

Canadian Journal of Earth Sciences

Volumn 34, Issue 5, 1997, Pages 577-587

  Bostock, M G ^a   Cassidy, J F ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

^b Geological Survey of Canada Sidney   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

SEISMIC SURVEY; UPPER MANTLE;

CANADA, SLAVE CRATON;

EID: 0030665094     PISSN: 00084077     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1139/e17-046     Document Type: Article

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