A deep crustal fluid channel into the San Andreas Fault system near Parkfield, California

Geophysical Journal International

Volumn 173, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 718-732

  Becken, M ^a   Ritter, O ^a   Park, S K ^b   Bedrosian, P A ^c   Weckmann, U ^a,d   Weber, M ^a,d  

^a GFZ GERMAN RESEARCH CENTRE FOR GEOSCIENCES   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c U S GEOLOGICAL SURVEY   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF POTSDAM   (Germany)

Author keywords

Crustal structure; Magnetotelluric; Transform faults

Indexed keywords

AEROMAGNETIC SURVEY; CRUSTAL STRUCTURE; DATA INTERPRETATION; DATA INVERSION; ELECTRICAL CONDUCTIVITY; ELECTRICAL RESISTIVITY; LOWER CRUST; MAGNETOTELLURIC METHOD; SAN ANDREAS FAULT; SEISMIC REFLECTION; TRANSFORM FAULT; TWO-DIMENSIONAL MODELING;

CALIFORNIA; NORTH AMERICA; PARKFIELD; UNITED STATES;

EID: 42349098421     PISSN: 0956540X     EISSN: 1365246X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-246X.2008.03754.x     Document Type: Article

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