Deep structure of the Baringo Rift Basin (central Kenya) from three-dimensional magnetotelluric imaging: Implications for rift evolution

Journal of Geophysical Research: Solid Earth

Volumn 105, Issue B10, 2000, Pages 23493-23518

  Hautot, Sophie ^a   Tarits, Pascal ^a   Whaler, Kathy ^b   Le Gall, Bernard ^a   Tiercelin, Jean Jacques ^a   Le Turdu, Caroline ^a  

^a Universite de Bretagne Occidentale   (France)

^b UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

IMAGING METHOD; MAGNETOTELLURIC METHOD; RIFTING; TECTONOSTRATIGRAPHY; VERTICAL ELECTRICAL SOUNDING;

BARINGO RIFT BASIN; EAST AFRICAN RIFT; KENYA;

EID: 0033708443     PISSN: 21699313     EISSN: 21699356     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2000jb900213     Document Type: Article

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