Ground surface temperature history from inversions of underground temperatures - a case study of the Western Canadian Sedimentary Basin

Tectonophysics

Volumn 291, Issue 1-4, 1998, Pages 287-298

  Majorowicz, Jacek A ^a   Šafanda, Jan ^b  

^a Northern Geothermal   (Canada)

^b GEOPHYSICAL INSTITUTE   (Czech Republic)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BOREHOLE TEMPERATURE; TEMPERATURE HISTORY;

NORTH AMERICA;

EID: 0032525714     PISSN: 00401951     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0040-1951(98)00047-X     Document Type: Article

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