Wide-angle seismic transect across the Torngat Orogen, northern Labrador: Evidence for a Proterozoic crustal root

Journal of Geophysical Research: Solid Earth

Volumn 104, Issue B4, 1999, Pages 7463-7480

  Funck, Thomas ^a   Louden, Keith E ^a  

^a DALHOUSIE UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CRUSTAL ROOT; CRUSTAL STRUCTURE; SEISMIC SURVEY;

CANADA; LABRADOR;

EID: 0033541428     PISSN: 21699313     EISSN: 21699356     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/1999jb900010     Document Type: Article

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