Electrical structure across the Indus Tsangpo suture and Shyok suture zones in NW Himalaya using magnetotelluric studies

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 29, Issue 8, 2002, Pages

  Gokarn, S G ^a   Gupta, Gautam ^a   Rao, C K ^a   Selvaraj, C ^a  

^a INDIAN INSTITUTE OF GEOMAGNETISM   (India)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EARTH SCIENCES; GEOPHYSICS;

DEPTH RANGE; ELECTRICAL STRUCTURES; FIRST ORDER; MAGNETOTELLURIC STUDIES; NW HIMALAYA; PARTIAL MELT; TWO DIMENSIONAL NATURE; WIDE SPREADS;

MAGNETOTELLURICS;

CALLUNA VULGARIS;

EID: 0037092275     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: 19448007     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2001GL014325     Document Type: Article

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