Simple models for the Beattie Magnetic Anomaly in South Africa

Tectonophysics

Volumn 478, Issue 1-2, 2009, Pages 111-118

  Quesnel, Yoann ^a   Weckmann, Ute ^a,b   Ritter, Oliver ^a   Stankiewicz, Jacek ^a   Lesur, Vincent ^a   Mandea, Mioara ^a   Langlais, Benoit ^c,d   Sotin, Christophe ^e   Galdéano, Armand ^f  

^a GFZ GERMAN RESEARCH CENTRE FOR GEOSCIENCES   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF POTSDAM   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITÉ DE NANTES   (France)

^d UNIVERSITÉ DE NANTES   (France)

^e CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^f CNRS   (France)

Author keywords

Beattie Magnetic Anomaly; Crust; Forward modeling; Inversion; Magnetization; Magnetotelluric and seismic experiments

Indexed keywords

BEATTIE MAGNETIC ANOMALY; CRUST; FORWARD MODELING; INVERSION; MAGNETOTELLURIC AND SEISMIC EXPERIMENTS;

MAGNETIZATION; MAGNETS; PRISMS; SEISMOLOGY; TELLURIC PROSPECTING;

EXPERIMENTS;

AEROMAGNETIC SURVEY; DATA INVERSION; MAGNETIC ANOMALY; MAGNETIZATION; MAGNETOTELLURIC METHOD; OCEANIC CRUST; REMANENT MAGNETIZATION; SHEAR ZONE;

AFRICA; KWAZULU-NATAL; SOUTH AFRICA; SOUTHERN AFRICA; SUB-SAHARAN AFRICA;

EID: 70449523325     PISSN: 00401951     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.tecto.2008.11.027     Document Type: Article

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