Nature and composition of the continental crust: a lower crustal perspective

RL Rudnick, DM Fountain - Reviews of geophysics, 1995 - Wiley Online Library
Geophysical, petrological, and geochemical data provide important clues about the
composition of the deep continental crust. On the basis of seismic refraction data, we divide …

Ground-motion relations for eastern North America

GM Atkinson, DM Boore - Bulletin of the Seismological …, 1995 - pubs.geoscienceworld.org
Predictive relations are developed for ground motions from eastern North American
earthquakes of 4.0≦ M≦ 7.25 at distances of 10≦ R≦ 500 km. The predicted parameters …

The shape of ground motion attenuation curves in southeastern Canada

GM Atkinson, RF Mereu - Bulletin of the Seismological …, 1992 - pubs.geoscienceworld.org
The shape of the attenuation curve of the Fourier spectrum of acceleration is established for
southeastern Canada from empirical data. The dataset is comprised of 1200 digital vertical …

Earthquake source spectra in eastern North America

GM Atkinson - Bulletin of the Seismological Society of …, 1993 - pubs.geoscienceworld.org
Source spectra for earthquakes of 3≤ M≤ 7 in eastern North America (ENA) are determined
from regional seismograph recordings, strong-motion records, teleseismic data, and …

Heat flow and structure of the lithosphere in the eastern Canadian Shield

C Pinet, C Jaupart, JC Mareschal… - Journal of …, 1991 - Wiley Online Library
Twenty‐two new determinations of heat flow and radiogenic heat production in the Superior
and Grenville provinces of the Canadian Shield are presented. The new data and previously …

Focal Depths for Small to Moderate Earthquakes (mN ≥2.8) in Western Quebec, Southern Ontario, and Northern New York

S Ma, GM Atkinson - Bulletin of the Seismological …, 2006 - pubs.geoscienceworld.org
Regional depth phase modeling is a useful technique to constrain earthquake focal depths
for events within sparse networks. We demonstrate how regional depth phases can be used …

Crustal thickness and Vp/Vs variations in the Grenville orogen (Ontario, Canada) from analysis of teleseismic receiver functions

DW Eaton, S Dineva, R Mereu - Tectonophysics, 2006 - Elsevier
We have developed a simple semblance-weighted stacking technique to estimate crustal
thickness and average VP/VS ratio using teleseismic receiver functions. We have applied …

Focal Depth Determination for Moderate and Small Earthquakes by Modeling Regional Depth Phases sPg, sPmP, and sPn

S Ma - Bulletin of the Seismological Society of America, 2010 - pubs.geoscienceworld.org
There are three usable regional depth phases, sPg, sPmP, and sPn, and their
corresponding reference phases, Pg, PmP, and Pn. The differential time between each …

Seismic structure of the continental crust based on rock velocity measurements from the Kapuskasing uplift

DM Fountain, MH Salisbury… - Journal of Geophysical …, 1990 - Wiley Online Library
The Michipicoten greenstone belt (MGB), Wawa gneiss terrane (WGT), and Kapuskasing
structural zone (KSZ) in Ontario, Canada, are regarded as a 25‐km‐thick partial cross …

Hydrothermal fluids during Mesozoic reactivation of the St. Lawrence rift system, Canada: C, O, Sr and Pb isotopic characterization

J Carignan, C Gariépy, C Hillaire-Marcel - Chemical Geology, 1997 - Elsevier
Calcite veins with accessory galena, sphalerite, barite and fluorite are abundant within the
Ottawa-Bonnechère and the Charlevoix-Saguenay failed arms of the St. Lawrence rift …