Reflection seismic investigations in the western part of the paleoproterozoic VHMS-bearing Skellefte District, northern Sweden

Economic Geology

Volumn 101, Issue 5, 2006, Pages 1039-1054

  Tryggvason, Ari ^a   Malehmir, Alireza ^a   Rodriguez Tablante, Johiris ^a,b   Juhlin, Christopher ^a   Weihed, Pär ^c  

^a UPPSALA UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^b STATOIL   (Norway)

^c LULEÅ UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

IMAGING TECHNIQUES; METAMORPHIC ROCKS; MINERALOGY; SEDIMENTARY ROCKS; SEISMOLOGY; STRATIGRAPHY; STRUCTURAL GEOLOGY; SWEDEN;

CRUST; HIGH-RESOLUTION IMAGES; MINERALIZATION; PALEOPROTEROZOIC; SEISMIC REFLECTION PROFILING;

VOLCANIC ROCKS;

METALLOGENESIS; ORE BODY; ORE DEPOSIT; PROTEROZOIC; SEISMIC METHOD; SEISMIC REFLECTION; TECTONIC EVOLUTION; ULTRAMAFIC ROCK;

EURASIA; EUROPE; NORTHERN EUROPE; SCANDINAVIA; SKELLEFTE; SWEDEN;

EID: 33847332092     PISSN: 03610128     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2113/gsecongeo.101.5.1039     Document Type: Article

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