Research of conductive structure of crust and upper mantle beneath the south-central Tibetan plateau

Diqiu Kexue - Zhongguo Dizhi Daxue Xuebao/Earth Science - Journal of China University of Geosciences

Volumn 32, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 491-498

  Ye, Gao Feng ^a,b   Jin, Sheng ^a,b   Wei, Wen Bo ^a,b   Unsworth, Martyn ^c  

^a CHINA UNIVERSITY OF GEOSCIENCES   (China)

^b CHINA UNIVERSITY OF GEOSCIENCES   (China)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA   (Canada)

Author keywords

Conductive structure; Magnetotelluric sounding; Nonlinear conjugate gradients inversion; Partial melt; South central Tibet

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; DATA ACQUISITION; ELECTROMAGNETIC FIELD MEASUREMENT; FAST FOURIER TRANSFORMS;

CONDUCTIVE STRUCTURE; MAGNETOTELLURIC SOUNDING; NONLINEAR CONJUGATE GRADIENTS INVERSION; PARTIAL MELT; SOUTH CENTRAL TIBET;

GEOPHYSICS;

EID: 34547970020     PISSN: 10002383     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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