Wide-band magnetotelluric measurements across the Taupo Volcanic Zone, New Zealand - preliminary results

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 26, Issue 24, 1999, Pages 3673-3676

  Ogawa, Yasuo ^a,c   Bibby, Hugh M ^b   Caldwell, T Grant ^b   Takakura, Shinichi ^a,c   Uchida, Toshihiro ^a,c   Matsushima, Nobuo ^a,c   Bennie, Stewart L ^b   Tosha, Toshiyuki ^a,c   Nishi, Yuji ^a,c  

^a GSJ   (Japan)

^b GNS SCIENCE   (New Zealand)

^c GEOLOGICAL SURVEY OF JAPAN   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HEAT CONDUCTION; HEAT FLUX; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; SEDIMENTS; MAGNETOTELLURICS; VOLCANOES;

RHYOLITIC VOLCANISM; VOLCANICLASTIC SEDIMENTS;

VOLCANOES; HEAT FLUX;

CALDERA; GEOTHERMAL SYSTEM; MAGNETOTELLURIC METHOD; MELT; VOLCANISM;

NEW ZEALAND;

GEOTHERMAL ACTIVITY; HIGH CONDUCTIVITY; MAGNETOTELLURIC MEASUREMENT; MAGNETOTELLURIC SOUNDINGS; NEAR SURFACE REGIONS; SEISMIC ATTENUATION; TAUPO VOLCANIC ZONE; VOLCANICLASTIC SEDIMENTS;

EID: 0033573422     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/1999GL010914     Document Type: Article

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