Conductivity structure of crust and upper mantle beneath the northern Tibetan Plateau: Results of super-wide band magnetotelluric sounding

Acta Geophysica Sinica

Volumn 49, Issue 4, 2006, Pages 1215-1225

  Wei, Wen Bo ^a,b   Jin, Sheng ^a,b   Ye, Gao Feng ^a,b   Deng, Ming ^a,b   Tan, Han Dong ^a,b   Unsworth, Martyn ^c   Jones, Alan G ^d   Booker, John ^e   Li, Shenghui ^e  

^a CHINA UNIVERSITY OF GEOSCIENCES   (China)

^b CHINA UNIVERSITY OF GEOSCIENCES   (China)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA   (Canada)

^d DUBLIN INSTITUTE FOR ADVANCED STUDIES   (Ireland)

^e UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

Author keywords

Conductive bodies in crust; Heat transmission between crust and mantle; INDEPTH MT; Magnetotelluric sounding

Indexed keywords

CRUSTAL STRUCTURE; ELECTRICAL CONDUCTIVITY; ELECTRICAL RESISTIVITY; MAGNETOTELLURIC METHOD; UPPER MANTLE;

ASIA; CHINA; EURASIA; FAR EAST; QINGHAI-XIZANG PLATEAU;

EID: 33749423063     PISSN: 00015733     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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