Seismic signal penetration beneath post-rift sills on the Newfoundland rifted margin

GEOPHYSICS

Volumn 73, Issue 5, 2008, Pages

  Shillington, Donna J ^a   Hopper, John R ^b,c   Steven Holbrook, W ^d  

^a Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences   (United States)

^b TEXAS A AND M UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c GEOLOGICAL SURVEY OF DENMARK AND GREENLAND   (Denmark)

^d UNIVERSITY OF WYOMING   (United States)

Author keywords

Oceanic crust; Seismology; Tectonics

Indexed keywords

BUILDINGS; SEDIMENTS; SEISMIC WAVES; TECTONICS;

AVERAGE FREQUENCY; BRIGHT REFLECTION; INSTANTANEOUS FREQUENCY; OCEAN DRILLING PROGRAMS; OCEANIC CRUST; SEISMIC REFLECTION DATA; SEISMIC REFLECTION PROFILES; SIGNAL PENETRATION;

SEISMOLOGY;

AMPLITUDE; MAGMA; OCEANIC CRUST; RIFT ZONE; SEISMIC DATA; SEISMIC METHOD; SEISMIC REFLECTION; SEISMOLOGY; TECTONIC SETTING; TRAVEL TIME;

CANADA; NEWFOUNDLAND; NEWFOUNDLAND AND LABRADOR; NORTH AMERICA;

EID: 53849116826     PISSN: 00168033     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1190/1.2972131     Document Type: Article

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