Anatomy of the southern Cordilleran hingeline, Utah and Nevada, from deep electrical resistivity profiling

GEOPHYSICS

Volumn 62, Issue 4, 2021, Pages 1069-1086

  Wannamaker, Philip E ^a   Johnston, Jeffery M ^b   Stodt, John A ^a   Booker, John R ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF UTAH   (United States)

^b University of Washington ^*  (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; ELECTRIC CONDUCTIVITY MEASUREMENT; PETROLEUM GEOLOGY; TECTONICS;

DEEP ELECTRICAL RESISTIVITY PROFILING; INVERSION ALGORITHM; MAGNETOTELLURIC SOUNDING;

TELLURIC PROSPECTING;

CAINOZOIC; CRUSTAL STRUCTURE; MAGNETOTELLURIC SOUNDING; MESOZOIC; RESISTIVITY;

USA, NEVADA; USA, UTAH;

EID: 0031175552     PISSN: 00168033     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1190/1.1444208     Document Type: Article

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