Structural electrical anisotropy in the crust at the South-Central Chilean continental margin as inferred from geomagnetic transfer functions

Physics of the Earth and Planetary Interiors

Volumn 173, Issue 1-2, 2009, Pages 7-16

  Brasse, Heinrich ^a   Kapinos, Gerhard ^a   Li, Yuguo ^a   Mütschard, Lutz ^a   Soyer, Wolfgang ^a   Eydam, Diane ^a  

^a FREIE UNIVERSITÄT BERLIN   (Germany)

Author keywords

Anisotropy; Geomagnetic induction; South America; Subduction zone processes

Indexed keywords

GEOMAGNETISM; LANDFORMS; TECTONICS; THREE DIMENSIONAL; TRANSFER FUNCTIONS;

2-D MODELS; 3-D MODELS; COAST EFFECTS; CONTINENTAL MARGINS; CONTINENTAL SLOPES; DATA FITS; ELECTRICAL ANISOTROPIES; FOREARC; GEOMAGNETIC DEEP SOUNDINGS; GEOMAGNETIC INDUCTION; GEOMAGNETIC TRANSFER FUNCTIONS; INDUCTION VECTORS; LOWER CRUSTS; REAL PARTS; REGIONAL STRESS FIELDS; SOUTH AMERICA; SUBDUCTION ZONE PROCESSES; VOLCANIC ARCS;

ANISOTROPY;

CONTINENTAL MARGIN; CONTINENTAL SLOPE; ELECTRICAL RESISTIVITY; GEOMAGNETISM; LOWER CRUST; SEISMIC ANISOTROPY; STRESS FIELD; SUBDUCTION ZONE; TRANSFER FUNCTION; VISUALIZATION;

CHILE; SOUTH AMERICA;

EID: 60749133308     PISSN: 00319201     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.pepi.2008.10.017     Document Type: Article

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