Products of 2.65-2.58 Ga orogenesis in the Slave Province correlated with Slave - Northern Cordillera Lithospheric Evolution (SNORCLE) seismic reflection patterns

Canadian Journal of Earth Sciences

Volumn 39, Issue 8, 2002, Pages 1189-1200

  Van der Velden, Arie J ^a   Cook, Frederick A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALGARY   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

IMAGING TECHNIQUES; ROCKS; SEISMOLOGY;

EARTH CRUST; OROGENESIS;

TECTONICS;

ARCHEAN; COLLISION ZONE; CONVERGENT MARGIN; LITHOSPHERE; OROGENIC BELT; SEISMIC REFLECTION;

CANADA;

EID: 0036025726     PISSN: 00084077     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1139/e02-034     Document Type: Article

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