Magnetotelluric image of the crust and upper mantle in the backarc of the northwestern Argentinean Andes

Geophysical Journal International

Volumn 142, Issue 3, 2000, Pages 841-854

  Lezaeta, Pamela ^a   Muñoz, Migue ^b   Brasse, Heinrich ^a  

^a FREIE UNIVERSITÄT BERLIN   (Germany)

^b NONE   (Chile)

Author keywords

2 D inversion; Asthenosphere; Central Andes; Decomposition; Magnetotellurics

Indexed keywords

ASTHENOSPHERE; CRUSTAL STRUCTURE; MAGNETOTELLURIC METHOD; MANTLE STRUCTURE; UPPER MANTLE;

ARGENTINA;

EID: 0033804729     PISSN: 0956540X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-246X.2000.00198.x     Document Type: Article

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