Weakly magnetic crust in the Canadian Cordillera

Earth and Planetary Science Letters

Volumn 248, Issue 1-2, 2006, Pages 476-485

  Pilkington, Mark ^a   Snyder, David B ^a   Hemant, Kumar ^b  

^a GEOLOGICAL SURVEY OF CANADA   (Canada)

^b GFZ GERMAN RESEARCH CENTRE FOR GEOSCIENCES   (Germany)

Author keywords

continental crust; magnetic field; susceptibility

Indexed keywords

MAGNETIC FIELDS; MAGNETIC SUSCEPTIBILITY; MAGNETIZATION; METAMORPHIC ROCKS; SEISMOLOGY; VOLCANIC ROCKS;

CONTINENTAL CRUST; MAGNETIC CRUST; MAGNETIC SOURCES; SEISMIC REFLECTION;

GEOLOGY;

CONTINENTAL CRUST; MAGNETIC ANOMALY; MAGNETIC FIELD; MAGNETIC SUSCEPTIBILITY; MAGNETIZATION; SEISMIC DATA;

CANADA; CANADIAN CORDILLERA; NORTH AMERICA;

EID: 33746735610     PISSN: 0012821X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.epsl.2006.06.010     Document Type: Article

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