Magnetotelluric imaging of crustal magma storage beneath the Mesozoic crystalline mountains in a nonvolcanic region, northeast Japan

Geochemistry, Geophysics, Geosystems

Volumn 7, Issue 8, 2006, Pages

  Umeda, Koji ^a   Asamori, Koichi ^a   Negi, Tateyuki ^b   Ogawa, Yasuo ^c  

^a JAPAN ATOMIC ENERGY AGENCY   (Japan)

^b Nittetsu Mining Consultants Co Ltd ^*  (Japan)

^c TOKYO INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Crustal magma storage; Iide mountains; Magnetotelluric soundings; Nonvolcanic region; Northeast Japan

Indexed keywords

EID: 65349102538     PISSN: 15252027     EISSN: 15252027     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2006GC001247     Document Type: Article

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