An investigation of upper mantle heterogeneity beneath the Archaean and Proterozoic crust of western Canada from Lithoprobe controlled-source seismic experiments

Tectonophysics

Volumn 416, Issue 1-2, 2006, Pages 187-207

  Gorman, Andrew R ^a   Németh, Balázs ^b   Clowes, Ron M ^c   Hajnal, Zoltan ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OTAGO   (New Zealand)

^b Potash Corporation of Saskatchewan   (Canada)

^c UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

^d UNIVERSITY OF SASKATCHEWAN   (Canada)

Author keywords

Controlled source seismology; Finite difference modelling; Upper mantle heterogeneity; Western Canada

Indexed keywords

FINITE DIFFERENCE METHOD; HETEROGENEITY; LITHOSPHERE; MANTLE STRUCTURE; PROTEROZOIC; SEISMIC DATA; SEISMIC REFLECTION; SEISMOLOGY; UPPER MANTLE; WAVE MODELING;

CANADA; NORTH AMERICA;

EID: 33645884714     PISSN: 00401951     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.tecto.2005.11.023     Document Type: Article

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