Electrical evidence of continental accretion: Steeply-dipping crustal-scale conductivity contrast

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 33, Issue 6, 2006, Pages

  Selway, Kate ^a   Heinson, Graham ^a   Hand, Martin ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ADELAIDE   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DATA RECORDING; GEOLOGICAL SURVEYS; GRAVITATION; SEISMOLOGY;

CRUSTAL-SCALE CONDUCTIVITY; GRAVITY DATA; MAGNETOTELLURIC DATA; OROGENIC BELT; PALAEOPROTEROZOIC CRUST; SEISMIC REFLECTION DATA; SEISMIC SURVEY; THICK-SKINNED FAULT;

SEISMIC PROSPECTING;

CRATON; CRUSTAL STRUCTURE; ELECTRICAL CONDUCTIVITY; GEOPHYSICAL SURVEY; IMAGING METHOD; MAGNETOTELLURIC METHOD; OROGENIC BELT;

AUSTRALASIA; AUSTRALIA; NORTH AUSTRALIAN CRATON;

EID: 33646464745     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2005GL025328     Document Type: Article

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