A reconnaissance teleseismic study of the upper mantle and transition zone beneath the Archean Slave craton in NW Canada

Tectonophysics

Volumn 319, Issue 3, 2000, Pages 151-166

  Bank, C G ^a   Bostock, M G ^a   Ellis, R M ^a   Cassidy, J F ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

^b PACIFIC GEOSCIENCE CENTRE   (Canada)

Author keywords

Kimberlite; Lithosphere; North American Craton; Seismology; Slave Province; Upper mantle

Indexed keywords

CRATON; KIMBERLITE; MANTLE STRUCTURE; PETROGENESIS; TELESEISMIC WAVE; UPPER MANTLE;

CANADA;

EID: 0034093340     PISSN: 00401951     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0040-1951(00)00034-2     Document Type: Article

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