Making sound inferences from geomagnetic sounding

Physics of the Earth and Planetary Interiors

Volumn 160, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 51-59

  Medin, Ashley E ^a   Parker, Robert L ^a   Constable, Steven ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Electrical conductivity of the mantle; Geomagnetic induction; Geophysical inverse theory; Water in the mantle

Indexed keywords

EARTH (PLANET); ELECTRIC CONDUCTIVITY; ELECTRIC FIELDS; ELECTROMAGNETISM; FREQUENCY DOMAIN ANALYSIS; GEOPHYSICS; OPTIMIZATION;

BOLTZMANN-ARRHENIUS CONDUCTIVITY MODELS; ELECTROMAGNETIC INDUCTION; MANTLE;

GEOMAGNETISM;

DATA SET; ELECTRICAL CONDUCTIVITY; ELECTROMAGNETIC METHOD; GEOMAGNETISM; INVERSE PROBLEM; OPTIMIZATION; RINGWOODITE; UPPER MANTLE; WATER CONTENT;

EID: 33845660852     PISSN: 00319201     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.pepi.2006.09.001     Document Type: Article

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