Stacked uppermost mantle layers within the Slave craton of NW Canada as defined by anisotropic seismic discontinuities

Tectonics

Volumn 27, Issue 4, 2008, Pages

  Snyder, David B ^a  

^a GEOLOGICAL SURVEY OF CANADA   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AZIMUTH; CRATON; DECOMPOSITION ANALYSIS; ECLOGITE; HARZBURGITE; MOHO; PLUTONISM; SEISMIC ANISOTROPY; SEISMOGRAM; STACKING; TELESEISMIC WAVE; UPPER MANTLE;

CANADA; LAC DE GRAS; NORTH AMERICA; NORTHWEST TERRITORIES;

EID: 55949102357     PISSN: 02787407     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2007TC002132     Document Type: Article

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