Coincident anomalies of seismic attenuation and electrical resistivity beneath the southern Bolivian Altiplano plateau

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 30, Issue 18, 2003, Pages

  Haberland, Christian ^a   Rietbrock, Andreas ^b   Schurr, Bernd ^a,c   Brasse, Heinrich ^d  

^a GFZ GERMAN RESEARCH CENTRE FOR GEOSCIENCES   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF POTSDAM   (Germany)

^c CTBTO IDC/Scientific Methods ^*  (Austria)

^d FREIE UNIVERSITÄT BERLIN   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATTENUATION; EARTHQUAKES; ELECTRIC CONDUCTIVITY; TOMOGRAPHY;

MANTLE; BOLIVIAN ALTIPLANO; EARTHQUAKE DATA; MAGMATIC ARCS; PARTIAL MELT; POSSIBLE MECHANISMS; SEISMIC ATTENUATION; TOMOGRAPHIC IMAGES; UPPER MANTLE;

SEISMOLOGY;

ELECTRICAL RESISTIVITY; SEISMIC ATTENUATION; SEISMIC TOMOGRAPHY; VELOCITY STRUCTURE;

ALTIPLANO; BOLIVIA; SOUTH AMERICA;

EID: 0348172321     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2003GL017492     Document Type: Article

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