Low electrical resistivity associated with plunging of the Nazca flat slab beneath Argentina

Nature

Volumn 429, Issue 6990, 2004, Pages 399-403

  Booker, John R ^a   Favetto, Alicia ^b   Pomposiello, M Cristina ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

^b Instituto de Geocronologia y Geologia Isotopica   (Argentina)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ELECTRIC CONDUCTIVITY; GEOLOGY; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MELTING; WATER;

CONDUCTIVITY STRUCTURE; VOLATILES;

VOLCANOES;

ELECTRICAL RESISTIVITY; NAZCA PLATE; OCEANIC LITHOSPHERE; PLATE TECTONICS; SUBDUCTION ZONE;

ARGENTINA; ARTICLE; ELECTRIC CONDUCTIVITY; ELECTRIC RESISTANCE; MELTING POINT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEA; VOLCANO;

ARGENTINA; SOUTH AMERICA;

EID: 2642549945     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nature02565     Document Type: Article

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