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Vulcan structure

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For information generally on Deep Probe, see: Gorman, Andrew R.; Clowes, Ron M.; Ellis, Robert M.; Henstock, Timothy J.; Spence, George D.; Keller, G. Randy; Levander, Alan; Snelson, Catherine M.; Burianyk, Michael J.A.; Kansewich, Ernest R.; Asudeh, Isa; Hajnal, Zoltan; and Miller, Kate C. "Deep
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at a high angle. The Vulcan structure was the target of one of the first deep-crustal seismic profiles in the late 1960s. Geologists have offered several explanations for what the structure is: failed
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Eaton, David W.; Ross, Gerald M.; and Clowes, Ronald M. "Seismic-Reflection and Potential-Field Studies of the Vulcan Structure, Western Canada: A Paleoproterozoic Pyrenees?"
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Eaton, David; Ross, Gerald; Clowes, Ronald M.; and Cook, F.A. "Lithospheric Structure of the Southern Hearne Province, Canadian Shield: A Palaeoproterozoic Pyrenees?"
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Hope, Jacqueline and Eaton, David. "Crustal Structure Beneath the Western Canada Sedimentary Basin: Constraints From Gravity and Magnetic Modelling."
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Convergent tectonic boundary between the Medicine Hat and Loverna Blocks in North America
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Probe: Imaging the Roots of Western North America."
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Index

convergent boundary
Medicine Hat Block
Loverna Block
Archean
basement
Wyoming craton
Hearne craton
North American craton
Western Canadian Sedimentary Basin
geologists
low gravity
magnetic anomaly
Alberta
Proterozoic
rift
collision zone
suture










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Magnetic anomalies

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