Magnetotelluric and teleseismic study across the Snowbird Tectonic Zone, Canadian Shield: A Neoarchean mantle suture?

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 29, Issue 17, 2002, Pages

  Jones, Alan G ^a   Snyder, David ^a   Hanmer, Simon ^a   Asudeh, Isa ^a   White, Don ^a   Eaton, David ^b   Clarke, Greg ^b  

^a GEOLOGICAL SURVEY OF CANADA   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN ONTARIO   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GEOPHYSICS; IMAGE SEGMENTATION; TECTONICS;

CANADIAN SHIELDS; GEOPHYSICAL DATA; GEOPHYSICAL PROPERTIES; OROGENIC BELTS; PALEOPROTEROZOIC; SNOWBIRD TECTONIC ZONES; SUB-SURFACE GEOMETRIES; TELESEISMIC;

MAGNETOTELLURICS;

EID: 0036768076     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: 19448007     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2002GL015359     Document Type: Article

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