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POLARIS: An In-depth Look at Canada’s Subcontinental Mantle and Earthquake Hazards

Overview POLARIS (Portable Observatories for Lithospheric Analysis and Research Investigating Seismicity) is a multi-institutional $10M proposal to the Canadian Foundation for Innovation (CFI), for the creation of a network of portable, satellite-linked geophysical observatories. This proposal brings together universities, governments, and the private sector from across Canada in an innovative research project dedicated to interdisciplinary studies of subcontinental mantle architecture, earthquake hazards and related ground motion analysis in the northern half of the North American continent.

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Publisher	Geological Survey of Canada	File Format	PDF, requires Acrobat Rdr 5
Date Published	June 2000	Downloads	109
Format	White Papers
Topics	Geology, Seismology / Earthquakes

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