Lithosphere conductivity structure using the CAM-1 (Lisbon-Madeira) submarine cable

Geophysical Journal International

Volumn 155, Issue 2, 2003, Pages 591-600

  Monteiro Santos, Fernando A ^a   Soares, António ^a   Nolasco, Rita ^a   Rodrigues, Helena ^a   Luzio, Rafael ^a   Palshin, Nick ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LISBON   (Portugal)

^b SHIRSHOV INSTITUTE OF OCEANOLOGY   (Russian Federation)

Author keywords

Electrical conductivity; Electromagnetic modelling; Iberia; Magnetotellurics; Oceanic lithosphere; Submarine cables

Indexed keywords

ELECTRICAL CONDUCTIVITY; ELECTROMAGNETIC SURVEY; LITHOSPHERIC STRUCTURE; MAGNETOTELLURIC METHOD; OCEANIC LITHOSPHERE; SUBMARINE CABLE;

ATLANTIC OCEAN;

EID: 0344035412     PISSN: 0956540X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-246X.2003.02060.x     Document Type: Article

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