Frozen subduction in Canada's Northwest Territories: Lithoprobe deep lithospheric reflection profiling of the western Canadian Shield

Tectonics

Volumn 18, Issue 1, 1999, Pages 1-24

  Cook, Frederick A ^a   Van Der Velden, Arie J ^a   Hall, Kevin W ^a   Roberts, Brian J ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALGARY   (Canada)

^b GEOLOGICAL SURVEY OF CANADA   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CRUSTAL STRUCTURE; LITHOSPHERE; SEISMIC VELOCITY; SUBDUCTION ZONE; VELOCITY STRUCTURE;

CANADA;

EID: 0033015854     PISSN: 02787407     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/1998TC900016     Document Type: Article

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