Resistivity structure of the Olympic Mountains and Puget Lowlands

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 25, Issue 1, 1998, Pages 109-112

  Aprea, Claudia ^a   Unsworth, Martyn ^b   Booker, John ^b  

^a LOS ALAMOS NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ELECTRIC CONDUCTIVITY; ELECTROMAGNETIC PROSPECTING; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; SEDIMENTARY ROCKS; SEDIMENTS; TECTONICS; VOLCANIC ROCKS;

CORE ROCKS; GEOELECTRIC STRUCTURE; MAGNETOTELLURICS; OLYMPIC MOUNTAINS; PUGET LOWLAND;

GEOPHYSICS;

GEOELECTRIC STRUCTURE; MAGNETOTELLURICS; RESISTIVITY MODEL;

USA, WASHINGTON, OLYMPIC MOUNTAINS; USA, WASHINGTON, PUGET LOWLAND;

EID: 0031834270     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/97GL03490     Document Type: Article

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