Enhanced mantle conductivity from sulfide minerals, southern Sierra Nevada, California

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 27, Issue 16, 2000, Pages 2405-2408

  Ducea, Mihai N ^a   Park, Stephen K ^b  

^a University of Arizona   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MANTLE CONVECTION; SULFIDE; THERMAL CONDUCTIVITY;

CALIFORNIA; SIERRA NEVADA; UNITED STATES;

ATMOSPHERIC PRESSURE; ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE; BASALT; GEOGRAPHICAL REGIONS; PETROGRAPHY; SULFIDE MINERALS; GRAIN BOUNDARIES;

MANTLE CONDUCTIVITY; XENOLITHS;

TELLURIC PROSPECTING; SULFUR COMPOUNDS;

BASALTIC MELTS; BULK CONDUCTIVITIES; LATE QUATERNARY; MAGNETOTELLURIC MEASUREMENT; PETROGRAPHIC STUDIES; RESIDENCE TIME; SOLID MATRIXES; SOUTHERN SIERRA NEVADA;

EID: 0034352656     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2000GL011565     Document Type: Article

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