Three-dimensional electrical resistivity image of magma beneath an active continental rift, Taupo Volcanic Zone, New Zealand

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 37, Issue 10, 2010, Pages

  Heise, Wiebke ^a,b   Caldwell, T Grant ^a   Bibby, Hugh M ^a   Bennie, Stewart L ^a  

^a GNS SCIENCE   (New Zealand)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LISBON   (Portugal)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CONTINENTAL RIFT; CRUSTAL ROCKS; ELECTRICAL RESISTIVITY; ELECTRICALLY CONDUCTIVE; EXPLOSIVE ERUPTION; GEOLOGICAL DATA; HEAT FLOWS; HIGH CONDUCTIVITY; INTERSTITIAL LIQUID; LIQUID MELT; MAGMATIC ACTIVITY; MAGNETOTELLURIC SOUNDINGS; NEW ZEALAND; PLUME-LIKE STRUCTURE; SILICIC VOLCANISM; SOLID CRYSTALS; TAUPO VOLCANIC ZONE;

ELECTRIC CONDUCTIVITY; EXTRACTION; LENSES; LIQUIDS; OPTICAL INSTRUMENTS; VOLCANOES;

THREE DIMENSIONAL;

CONTINENTAL DRIFT; ELECTRICAL METHOD; ELECTRICAL RESISTIVITY; EXPLOSIVE VOLCANISM; HEAT FLOW; MAGMA; MAGNETOTELLURIC METHOD;

NEW ZEALAND; NORTH ISLAND; TAUPO VOLCANIC ZONE;

CALLUNA VULGARIS;

EID: 77953045050     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2010GL043110     Document Type: Article

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