Audio-magnetotellurics (AMT) for steeply-dipping mineral targets: Importance of multicomponent measurements at each site

SEG Technical Program Expanded Abstracts

Volumn 21, Issue 1, 2002, Pages 496-499

  Jones, Alan G ^a   McNeice, Gary ^b  

^a GEOLOGICAL SURVEY OF CANADA   (Canada)

^b Geosystem Canada Inc   (Canada)

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EID: 84955560730     PISSN: 10523812     EISSN: 19494645     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1190/1.1817293     Document Type: Conference Paper

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