The Beaver River structure: A cross-strike discontinuity of possible crustal dimensions in the southern Mackenzie Fold Belt, Yukon and Northwest territories, Canada

Bulletin of Canadian Petroleum Geology

Volumn 48, Issue 1, 2000, Pages 19-29

  Morrow, David W ^a   Miles, Warner C ^b  

^a GEOLOGICAL SURVEY OF CANADA   (Canada)

^b GEOLOGICAL SURVEY OF CANADA   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DISCONTINUITY; FOLD BELT; PRECAMBRIAN; STRUCTURAL GEOLOGY;

CANADA;

EID: 0034090401     PISSN: 00074802     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2113/48.1.19     Document Type: Article

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