Broadside wide-angle seismic studies and three-dimensional structure of the crust in the southeast Canadian Cordillera

Canadian Journal of Earth Sciences

Volumn 34, Issue 8, 1997, Pages 1156-1166

  Burianyk, M J A ^a   Kanasewich, E R ^a   Udey, N ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CRUSTAL STRUCTURE; LITHOPROBE; SEISMIC REFLECTION; SEISMIC REFRACTION; SEISMIC TOMOGRAPHY;

CANADA, CANADIAN CORDILLERA;

EID: 0031446493     PISSN: 00084077     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1139/e17-093     Document Type: Article

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