Crustal structure beneath Hudson Bay from ambient-noise tomography: Implications for basin formation

Geophysical Journal International

Volumn 184, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 65-82

  Pawlak, Agnieszka ^a   Eaton, David W ^a   Bastow, Ian D ^b   Kendall, J Michael ^b   Helffrich, George ^b   Wookey, James ^b   Snyder, David ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALGARY   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BRISTOL   (United Kingdom)

^c GEOLOGICAL SURVEY OF CANADA   (Canada)

Author keywords

Crustal structure; Interferometry; North America; Sedimentary basin processes; Seismic tomography

Indexed keywords

AMBIENT NOISE; ARCHEAN; BASIN FORMATION; BROAD BANDS; CORRELOGRAMS; CROSS CORRELATIONS; CROSS SECTION; CROSS-CORRELATION FUNCTION; CRUSTAL STRUCTURE; CRUSTAL THINNING; CRUSTAL VELOCITY; HUDSON BAY; LITHOSPHERIC; NOISE EMANATING; NOISE SOURCE; NORTH AMERICA; NORTH ATLANTIC; SEASONAL VARIATION; SEDIMENTARY BASIN; SEISMIC TOMOGRAPHY; SEISMOGRAPH STATIONS; SELECTION METHODS; SIGNAL TO NOISE; SOURCE REGION; TIME FREQUENCY ANALYSIS; TOMOGRAPHIC INVERSION; TOMOGRAPHIC MAPS; WAVE HEIGHTS; WINTER MONTHS;

DISPERSION (WAVES); INTERFEROMETRY; SEDIMENTOLOGY; SEISMOGRAPHS; SETTLING TANKS; SIGNAL TO NOISE RATIO; TOMOGRAPHY;

SEISMOLOGY;

BASIN EVOLUTION; CRUSTAL STRUCTURE; CRUSTAL THINNING; INTRACRATONIC BASIN; PHANEROZOIC; RAYLEIGH WAVE; SEISMIC TOMOGRAPHY; SEISMOGRAPH; SIGNAL-TO-NOISE RATIO; SUBSIDENCE;

CANADA; HUDSON BAY; NORTH AMERICA;

EID: 78650157557     PISSN: 0956540X     EISSN: 1365246X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-246X.2010.04828.x     Document Type: Article

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