Lithospheric geometry of the Wopmay orogen from a Slave craton to Bear Province magnetotelluric transect

Journal of Geophysical Research: Solid Earth

Volumn 114, Issue 1, 2009, Pages

  Spratt, Jessica E ^a   Jones, Alan G ^a   Jackson, Valerie A ^b   Collins, Louise ^a   Avdeeva, Anna ^a  

^a DUBLIN INSTITUTE FOR ADVANCED STUDIES   (Ireland)

^b NWT Geoscience Office ^*  (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARCHEAN; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CRATON; ELECTRICAL RESISTIVITY; GEOELECTRIC FIELD; GRAIN SIZE; LITHOSPHERE; LOWER CRUST; MAGMATISM; MAGNETOTELLURIC METHOD; OLIVINE; OROGENY; PROTEROZOIC; REGIONAL GEOLOGY; SHEAR; STRUCTURAL GEOLOGY; TERRANE; TRANSECT; TWO-DIMENSIONAL MODELING;

CANADA; NORTH AMERICA; NORTHWEST TERRITORIES;

EID: 63049135825     PISSN: 21699313     EISSN: 21699356     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2007JB005326     Document Type: Article

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