1-D electrical conductivity structure beneath the Philippine Sea: Results from an ocean bottom magnetotelluric survey

Physics of the Earth and Planetary Interiors

Volumn 162, Issue 1-2, 2007, Pages 2-12

  Seama, Nobukazu ^a,d   Baba, Kiyoshi ^b   Utada, Hisashi ^b   Toh, Hiroaki ^c   Tada, Noriko ^a   Ichiki, Masahiro ^d   Matsuno, Tetsuo ^a  

^a KOBE UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TOYAMA   (Japan)

^d JAPAN AGENCY FOR MARINE EARTH SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Crustal age; Mantle temperature; Marine magnetotelluric; Philippine Sea; Upper mantle conductivity structure; Water

Indexed keywords

ELECTRIC CONDUCTIVITY; GEOLOGICAL SURVEYS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; ONE DIMENSIONAL; STRUCTURAL GEOLOGY; TECTONICS; TIME SERIES ANALYSIS; TOPOGRAPHY;

CRUSTAL AGE; MANTLE TEMPERATURE; MARINE MAGNETOTELLURIC; OCEAN BOTTOM MAGNETOTELLURIC SURVEY; UPPER MANTLE CONDUCTIVITY STRUCTURE;

GEOMAGNETISM;

ELECTRICAL CONDUCTIVITY; MAGNETOTELLURIC METHOD; TECTONIC SETTING; TIME SERIES; UPPER MANTLE;

MARIANA TROUGH; PACIFIC OCEAN; PHILIPPINE SEA;

EID: 34250361394     PISSN: 00319201     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.pepi.2007.02.014     Document Type: Article

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