Lithospheric structure beneath the Archaean Slave Province and Proterozoic Wopmay orogen, northwestern Canada, from a LITHOPROBE refraction/wide-angle reflection survey

Geophysical Journal International

Volumn 153, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 1-19

  Viejo, G Fernández ^a   Clowes, R M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

Author keywords

Crustal structure; Mantle discontinuities; Plate tectonics; Refraction seismology; Slave Province; Wopmay orogen

Indexed keywords

CRUSTAL STRUCTURE; LITHOSPHERIC STRUCTURE; MANTLE DISCONTINUITY; PLATE TECTONICS; PRECAMBRIAN; SEISMIC REFLECTION; SEISMIC REFRACTION;

CANADA;

EID: 0037391278     PISSN: 0956540X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-246X.2003.01807.x     Document Type: Article

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