Emplacement of the Whistle dike, the Whistle embayment and hosted sulfides, Sudbury impact structure, based on anisotropies of magnetic susceptibility and magnetic remanence

Economic Geology

Volumn 100, Issue 6, 2005, Pages 1207-1227

  Giroux, Laura A ^a   Benn, Keith ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OTTAWA   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANISOTROPY OF ANHYSTERETIC REMANENT MAGNETIZATION; ANISOTROPY OF MAGNETIC SUSCEPTIBILITY; ANISOTROPY OF PARTIAL ANHYSTERETIC REMANENT MAGNETIZATION;

ANISOTROPY; DEMAGNETIZATION; LEVEES; MAGNETIC SUSCEPTIBILITY; PETROGRAPHY; REMANENCE; SCANNING ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; SULFIDE MINERALS;

METEOR IMPACTS;

DIKE; IMPACT STRUCTURE; LINEATION; MAGNETIC ANISOTROPY; MAGNETIC FABRIC; MAGNETIC MINERAL; MAGNETIC SUSCEPTIBILITY; MASSIVE SULFIDE; REMANENT MAGNETIZATION;

CANADA; NORTH AMERICA; ONTARIO; SUDBURY IGNEOUS COMPLEX; SUDBURY STRUCTURE;

EID: 33645774703     PISSN: 03610128     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2113/gsecongeo.100.6.1207     Document Type: Article

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