Electromagnetic images of a strike-slip fault: The Tintina fault - Northern Canadian

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 29, Issue 8, 2002, Pages

  Ledo, Juanjo ^a   Jones, Alan G ^a   Ferguson, Ian J ^b  

^a GEOLOGICAL SURVEY OF CANADA   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MANITOBA   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

STRIKE-SLIP FAULTS; STRUCTURAL GEOLOGY; TECTONICS;

CONDUCTING PHASIS; ELECTROMAGNETIC BEHAVIOR; ELECTROMAGNETIC IMAGE; ELECTRONIC CONDUCTION MECHANISM; HIGH CONDUCTIVITY; SHALLOW STRUCTURE; SURFACE EXPRESSION; TWO DIMENSIONAL (2 D);

FAULT SLIPS;

EID: 0037092366     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: 19448007     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2001GL013408     Document Type: Article

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