Delineating ophiolite-derived host rocks of massive sulfide Cu-Co-Zn deposits with 2D high-resolution seismic reflection data in Outokumpu, Finland

Geophysics

Volumn 77, Issue 5, 2012, Pages

  Kukkonen, I T ^a   Heinonen, S ^b   Heikkinen, P ^b   Sorjonen Ward, P ^a  

^a GEOLOGICAL SURVEY OF FINLAND   (Finland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HELSINKI   (Finland)

Author keywords

2D; Europe; Reflectivity; Seismic impedance; Vibroseis

Indexed keywords

3D MODELING; ACOUSTIC IMPEDANCE; ACOUSTIC LOGGING; COBALT ALLOYS; COBALT COMPOUNDS; COPPER ALLOYS; COPPER COMPOUNDS; DEPOSITS; GEOPHYSICAL PROSPECTING; MAGNESITE; MICA; MICA DEPOSITS; ORES; REFLECTION; SEISMIC RESPONSE; SEISMIC WAVES; STRUCTURAL GEOLOGY; SULFUR COMPOUNDS; TERNARY ALLOYS; ZINC ALLOYS; ZINC DEPOSITS; ZINC SULFIDE;

EUROPE; HIGH RESOLUTION SEISMIC; REFLECTIVE STRUCTURE; SEISMIC IMPEDANCE; SEISMIC REFLECTION DATA; SEISMIC REFLECTION METHOD; SYNTHETIC SEISMOGRAM; VIBROSEIS;

ROCKS;

ACOUSTIC PROPERTY; COBALT; COPPER; CRUSTAL STRUCTURE; HOST ROCK; LOGGING (GEOPHYSICS); MASSIVE SULFIDE; MICA; MINING; OPHIOLITE; ORE DEPOSIT; REFLECTIVITY; SCHIST; SEISMIC DATA; SEISMIC REFLECTION; SEISMIC WAVE; SEISMOGRAM; UPPER CRUST; VIBROSEIS; WAVELENGTH; ZINC;

FINLAND; OUTOKUMPU; POHJOIS-KARJALA;

EID: 84866458793     PISSN: 00168033     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1190/geo2012-0029.1     Document Type: Article

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