Mantle involvement in lithospheric collision: Seismic evidence from the Trans-Hudson Orogen, western Canada

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 24, Issue 16, 1997, Pages 2079-2082

  Hajnal, Z ^a   Nemeth, B ^a   Clowes, R M ^b   Ellis, R M ^b   Spence, G D ^c   Burianyk, M J A ^d   Asudeh, I ^e   White, D J ^e   Forsyth, D A ^e  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SASKATCHEWAN   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

^c UNIVERSITY OF VICTORIA   (Canada)

^d UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA   (Canada)

^e GEOLOGICAL SURVEY OF CANADA   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTIC WAVE REFLECTION; ACOUSTIC WAVE REFRACTION; ACOUSTIC WAVE VELOCITY; SEISMIC WAVES; SEISMOLOGY; REFRACTION;

LITHOSPHERIC COLLISION; MOHO STRUCTURE; SEISMIC REFRACTION/WIDE ANGLE REFLECTION PROFILES;

TECTONICS; SEISMOLOGY;

COLLISION; LITHOSPHERE; MANTLE; SEISMIC REFLECTION; SEISMIC REFRACTION;

CANADA, CANADIAN SHIELD, TRANS-HUDSON OROGEN;

CONTINENTAL COLLISIONS; LATERAL DIMENSION; LITHOSPHERIC MANTLE; MANTLE DISCONTINUITIES; SEISMIC REFRACTION; TRANS-HUDSON OROGEN; VARIABLE VELOCITIES; WIDE-ANGLE REFLECTION;

EID: 0031200930     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/97GL01958     Document Type: Article

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