Water in the mantle: Results from electrical conductivity beneath the French Alps

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 31, Issue 6, 2004, Pages

  Tarits, P ^a   Hautot, S ^b   Perrier, F ^c  

^a Universite de Bretagne Occidentale   (France)

^b UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

^c CEA DIF   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DATA ACQUISITION; ELECTRIC CONDUCTIVITY; MAGNETOELECTRIC EFFECTS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS;

MAGNETOTELLURIC SOUNDING; PYROLITE MANTLE; TRANSITION ZONE;

GEOPHYSICS;

ELECTRICAL CONDUCTIVITY; MAGNETOTELLURIC METHOD; MANTLE; TRANSITION ZONE; WATER-ROCK INTERACTION;

ALPS; EURASIA; EUROPE;

EID: 18544397057     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2003GL019277     Document Type: Article

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