Crustal properties across passive margins : selected papers from the symposium "Crustal properties across passive margins," held at Dalhousie University, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada /

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Corporate Authors: Elsevier Science & Technology.; Inter-Union Commission on Geodynamics.; National Research Council Canada.
Group Author: Keen, C. E.
Published: Elsevier Scientific Pub. Co. ; Distributions for the U.S. and Canada, Elsevier/North Holland,
Publisher Address: Amsterdam ; New York : New York :
Publication Dates: 1979.
Literature type: eBook
Language: English
Series: Developments in geotectonics ; 15
Inter-union Commission on Geodynamics scientific report ; no. 51
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Online Access: http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/bookseries/04190254/15
Carrier Form: 1 online resource (vi, 390 pages) : illustrations.
Bibliography: Includes bibliographical references.
Index Number: QE511
CLC: P541
Contents: Seismic refraction study of the continental edge of the eastern United States / R.E. Sheridan [and others] -- The gravity field of the U.S. Atlantic continental margin / J.A. Grow, C.O. Bowin and D.R. Hutchinson -- The geologic history of the passive margin off New England and the Canadian maritime provinces / E. Uchupi and J.A. Austin Jr. -- Geophysical observations bearing upon the origin of the Newfoundland ridge / A.C. Grant -- The Canadian Atlantic margin : a passive continental margin encompassing an active past / R.T. Haworth and C.E. Keen -- Precambrian meta-diabases of southern New Brunswick -- the opening of the Iapetus ocean? / N. Rast -- The age and origin of the deepest correlative structures recognized off Canada and Europe / J.-P. Lefort and R.T. Haworth -- Geophysical transects of the Labrador Sea : Labrador to southwest Greenland / K. Hinz [and others] -- The Atlantic margin of Iberia and Morocco, a reinterpretation / W.J.M. Van der Linden -- Structure of the crust and upper mantle at Goban Spur, southwest of the British Isles -- some implications for margin studies / R.A. Scrutton -- An explosion seismology investigation of the continental margin west of the Hebrides, Scotland, at 58 N / M.H.P. Bott [and others] -- Geological events during the early formation of a passive margin / O. Eldholm and E. Sundvor -- The western and northern margin off Svalbard / E. Sundvor and O. Eldholm -- CDP seismic sections of the western Beaufort continental margin / S. Eittreim and A. Grantz -- Geology and tectonic development of the continental margin north of Alaska / A. Grantz, S. Eittreim and D.A. Dinter -- On sheared passive continental margins / R.A. Scrutton -- Seismic models of inner parts of the Euro-Asian continent and its margins / I.P. Kosminskaya and N.I. Pavlenkova -- Poisson's ratio in the oceanic crust -- a review / R.D. Hyndman -- On the use of Rayleigh wave group velocities for the analysis of continental margins / S. Cloetingh, G. Nolet and R. W