Elastic thickness of the lithosphere in the central Canadian shield

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 26, Issue 19, 1999, Pages 3033-3036

  Wang, Yihua ^a   Mareschal, Jean Claude ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ DU QUÉBEC À MONTRÉAL   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ELASTICITY; GRAVITATIONAL EFFECTS; RIGIDITY; SEDIMENTS; SUBSIDENCE; SURFACE TOPOGRAPHY;

LITHOSPHERE; MAXIMUM ENTROPY METHOD;

TECTONICS; MAXIMUM ENTROPY METHODS;

BOUGUER ANOMALY; CRATON; CRUSTAL STRUCTURE; TOPOGRAPHY;

CANADA;

ARCHEAN; BOUGUER GRAVITY; CANADIAN SHIELDS; ELASTIC THICKNESS; HUDSON BAY; PROTEROZOIC; THERMAL REGIMES; TRANS-HUDSON OROGEN;

EID: 0033208550     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/1999GL010806     Document Type: Article

References (24)

1. Ahern, J.L., & S.R. Mrkvicka, A mechanical and thermal model for the evolution of the Williston Basin. Tectonics, 3, 79-102, 1984.
2. Ahern, J.L., & R.C. Ditmars, Rejuvenation of continental lithosphere beneath an intracratonic basin. Tectonophys., 120, 21-35, 1985.
3. Bechtel, T.D., D.W. Forsyth, V.L. Sharpton, & R.F. Grieve, Variations in effective elastic thickness of the North American lithosphere. Nature, 343, 636-638, 1990.
4. Burov, E.B., C. Jaupart, & J.C. Mareschal, Large-scale crustal heterogeneities and lithospheric strength in cratons. Earth Planet. Sci. Lett., 164, 205-219, 1998.
5. Christensen, N.I. & W.D. Mooney, Seismic velocity structure and composition of the continental crust: A global view. J. Geophys. Res., 100, 9761-9788, 1995.
6. Forsyth, D.W., Subsurface loading and estimates of the flexural rigidity of continental lithosphere. J. Geophys. Res., 90, 12623-12632, 1985.
7. Gibb, R.A., M.D. Thomas, P.C. Lapointe, & M. Mukhopadhyay, Geophysics of proposed Proterozoic sutures in Canada. Precamb. Res., 19, 349-394, 1983.
8. Guillou-Frottier, L., C. Jaupart, J.C. Mareschal, G. Bienfait, L.Z. Cheng, & R. Lapointe, High heat flow in the Trans-Hudson Orogen, central Canadian Shield. Geophys. Res. Lett., 23, 3027-3030, 1996.
9. Hanna, W.F., R.E. Sweeney, T.G. Hildenbrand, J.G. Tanner, R.K. McConnell, & R.H. Godson, The gravity anomaly map of North America. in The Geology of North America - An overview. Edited by A.W. Bally and A.R. Palmer. A, 17-28, 1989.
10. Hartley, R., A.B. Watts, & J.D. Fairhead, Isostasy of Africa. Earth Planet. Sci. Lett., 137, 1-18, 1996.
11. Hoffman, P.F., United Plates of America, the birth of a craton: Early Proterozoic assembly and growth of Laurentia. Ann. Rev. Earth Planet. Sci., 16, 543-603, 1988.
12. Lowry, A.R., & R.B. Smith, Flexural rigidity of the Basin and Range - Colorado Plateau - Rocky Mountain transition from coherence analysis of gravity and topography. J. Geophys. Res., 99, 20123-20140, 1994.
13. Lowry, A.R., & R.B. Smith, Strength and rheology of the western U.S. Cordillera. J. Geophys. Res., 100, 17,947-17,963, 1995.
14. Majorowicz, J.A., F.W. Jones, & A.M. Jessop, Geothermics of the Williston Basin in Canada in relation to hydrodynamics and hydrocarbon occurrence. Geophysics, 51, 767-779, 1986.
15. Mareschal, J.C., C. Jaupart, C. Gariépy, L.Z. Cheng, L. Guillou-Frottier, G. Bienfait, & R. Lapointe, Heat flow and deep thermal structure of the lithosphere near the southeastern edge of the Canadian Shield. Can. J. Earth Sci., in press, 1999a.
16. Mareschal, J.C., C. Jaupart, L.Z. Cheng, F. Rolandone, C. Gariépy, G. Bienfait, L. Guillou-Frottier, & R. Lapointe, Heat flow in the Trans-Hudon Orogen of the Canadian Shield : Implications for Proterozoic continental growth. J. Geophys. Res., in press, 1999b.
17. McKenzie, D.P., & D. Fairhead, Estimates of the effective elastic thickness of the continental lithosphere from Bouguer and free air gravity anomalies. J. Geophys. Res., 102, 27523-27552, 1997.
18. Mooney, W.D. & L.W. Braile, The seismic structure of the continental crust and upper mantle of North America. in The Geology of North America - an overview. Edited by A.W. Bally and A.R. Palmer. A, 39-52, 1989.
19. Németh, B., Z. Hajnal, & S.B. Lucas, Moho signature from wide-angle reflections: preliminary results of the 1993 Trans-Hudson Orogen refraction experiment. Tectonophysics, 264, 111-121, 1996.
20. Pilkington, M., Mapping elastic lithospheric thickness variations in Canada. Tectonophysics, 190, 283-297, 1991.
21. Pinet, C., C. Jaupart, J.C. Mareschal, C. Gariépy, G. Bienfait, & R. Lapointe, Heat flow and structure of the lithosphere in the eastern Canadian Shield. J. Geophys. Res., 96, 19941-19963, 1991.
22. Watts, A.B., J.H. Bodine, & M.S. Steckler, Observations of flexure and the state of stress of the oceanic lithosphere. J. geophys. Res., 85, 6369-6376, 1980.
23. White, D.J., S.B. Lucas, Z. Hajnal, H. Zwanzig, & J.F. Lewry, Seismic reflection images across the Kisseynew Domain northern boundary. LITHOPROBE Trans Hudson Orogen Transect Report # 55, 95-99, 1996.
24. Wu, P., Flexure of lithosphere beneath the Alberta Foreland Basin: Evidence of an eastward stiffening continental lithosphere. Geophys. Res. Lett., 18, 451-454, 1991.