The electrical resistivity structure of Archean to Tertiary lithosphere along 3200 km of SNORCLE profiles, northwestern Canada

Canadian Journal of Earth Sciences

Volumn 42, Issue 6, 2005, Pages 1257-1275

  Jones, Alan G ^a,b   Ledo, Juanjo ^a,c   Ferguson, Ian J ^d   Farquharson, Colin ^e   Garcia, Xavier ^a,b   Grant, Nick ^a   McNeice, Gary ^f,g   Roberts, Brian ^a   Spratt, Jessica ^a,b   Wennberg, Grant ^d   Wolynec, Lisa ^d   Wu, Xianghong ^d  

^a GEOLOGICAL SURVEY OF CANADA   (Canada)

^b DUBLIN INSTITUTE FOR ADVANCED STUDIES   (Ireland)

^c UNIVERSITY OF BARCELONA   (Spain)

^d UNIVERSITY OF MANITOBA   (Canada)

^e UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

^f Phoenix Geophysics Limited of Eastern Europe and Central Asia   (Canada)

^g Geosystem Canada Inc   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ELECTRIC CONDUCTIVITY MEASUREMENT; IMAGING TECHNIQUES; LITHOLOGY; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; SEISMOLOGY; STRUCTURAL GEOLOGY;

LITHOSPHERE; MAGNETOTELLURIC MEASUREMENTS; SEISMIC REFLECTION;

TECTONICS;

ELECTRICAL RESISTIVITY; LITHOSPHERIC STRUCTURE;

CANADA; NORTH AMERICA;

EID: 30744453237     PISSN: 00084077     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1139/e05-080     Document Type: Article

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