A review of high-resolution seismic profiling across the Sudbury, Selbaie, Noranda, and Matagami mining camps

Canadian Journal of Earth Sciences

Volumn 37, Issue 2-3, 2000, Pages 503-516

  Adam, Erick ^a   Perron, G ^a   Milkereit, B ^b   Wu, Jianjun ^c   Calvert, A J ^d   Salisbury, M ^a   Verpaelst, Pierre ^e   Dion, Denis Jacques ^e  

^a GEOLOGICAL SURVEY OF CANADA   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF KIEL   (Germany)

^c CTC Pulsonic   (Canada)

^d SIMON FRASER UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^e MINISTÈRE DES RESSOURCES NATURELLES ET DE LA FAUNE   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

LITHOPROBE; MASSIVE SULFIDE; MINERAL EXPLORATION; SEISMIC SURVEY; STRATIGRAPHY;

CANADA;

EID: 0033861450     PISSN: 00084077     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1139/e99-064     Document Type: Article

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