Mapping altered rocks using Landsat TM and lithogeochemical data: Sulphurets-Brucejack Lake district, British Columbia, Canada

Photogrammetric Engineering and Remote Sensing

Volumn 64, Issue 4, 1998, Pages 309-322

  Harris, J R ^a   Rencz, A N ^a   Ballantyne, B ^a   Sheridon, C ^a  

^a GEOLOGICAL SURVEY OF CANADA   (Canada)

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