A synthesis of the LITHOPROBE research has yielded three lithospheric cross-sections, one of which spans the entire continent. Extending down to the base of the North American plate (up to 270 km deep), the cross-sections illuminate the assembly of the North American continent at an unprecedented scale. Posters of the cross-sections are available for download.
Access
the LITHOPROBE seismic and MT data archive:
Seismic reflection, refraciton and magnetotelluric (MT) data
collected by LITHOPROBE in its 10 transects across
Canada now are archived at the Seismology and Electromagnetic
Section of the Geological Survey of Canada. These data are available
for interested companies, institutions and individuals. Please
visit: http://gdr.nrcan.gc.ca/seismtlitho/archive/index_e.php
About
LITHOPROBeLITHOPROBE is Canada's major national
research project in the earth sciences. It combines multidisciplinary
earth science studies of the Canadian landmass and surrounding offshore
margins to determine how the northern North American continent has
formed over geological time from 4000 million years ago to the present.
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Newly Published and Available Online and at
your Bookstores:
Ghost Mountains and Vanished Oceans – North America from Birth to Middle Age: a new book by John Wilson, author of Dancing Elephants and Floating Continents, and Ron Clowes, Director of LITHOPROBE, that is aimed at the general adult reader........ read more ...
