Electrical structure of the crust below the Deccan Flood Basalts (India), inferred from magnetotelluric soundings

Geophysical Journal International

Volumn 163, Issue 3, 2005, Pages 931-943

  Patro, B Prasanta K ^a,b   Brasse, Heinrich ^b   Sarma, S V S ^a   Harinarayana, T ^a  

^a NATIONAL GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (India)

^b FREIE UNIVERSITÄT BERLIN   (Germany)

Author keywords

2 D inversion; Anisotropy; Deccan traps; Magnetotellurics

Indexed keywords

CRUST; FLOOD BASALT; MAGNETOTELLURIC METHOD; PRECAMBRIAN; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS;

ASIA; DECCAN; EURASIA; INDIA; SOUTH ASIA;

EID: 33745285743     PISSN: 0956540X     EISSN: 1365246X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-246X.2005.02789.x     Document Type: Article

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