Upper mantle electrical resistivity structure beneath the central Mariana subduction system

Geochemistry, Geophysics, Geosystems

Volumn 11, Issue 9, 2010, Pages

  Matsuno, Tetsuo ^a   Seama, Nobukazu ^b   Evans, Rob L ^a   Chave, Alan D ^a   Baba, Kiyoshi ^c   White, Antony ^d   Goto, Tada Nori ^e   Heinson, Graham ^f   Boren, Goran ^f   Yoneda, Asami ^c,g   Utada, Hisashi ^c  

^a WOODS HOLE OCEANOGRAPHIC INSTITUTION   (United States)

^b KOBE UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

^d FLINDERS UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^e KYOTO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^f UNIVERSITY OF ADELAIDE   (Australia)

^g Tokyo Shoseki Co Ltd   (Japan)

Author keywords

back arc spreading system; electrical resistivity structure; Mariana; marine magnetotellurics; subduction zone; upper mantle structure

Indexed keywords

ELECTRIC CONDUCTIVITY; HYDRATION; MAGNETOTELLURICS; MELTING; OCEANOGRAPHY; OLIVINE; SILICATE MINERALS; TECTONICS; VOLCANOES;

BACK-ARC; ELECTRICAL RESISTIVITY STRUCTURE; MARIANA; MARINE MAGNETOTELLURICS; SUBDUCTION ZONE; UPPER MANTLE STRUCTURE;

STRUCTURAL GEOLOGY;

ALGORITHM; DATA INVERSION; ELECTRICAL RESISTIVITY; ISLAND ARC; MAGNETOTELLURIC METHOD; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; SPREADING CENTER; SUBDUCTION ZONE; UPPER MANTLE;

BRAZIL; MARIANA; MARIANA TROUGH; MINAS GERAIS; PACIFIC OCEAN; PARECE VELA BASIN; PHILIPPINE SEA;

EID: 77956547090     PISSN: 15252027     EISSN: 15252027     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2010GC003101     Document Type: Article

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