The heterogeneous electrical conductivity structure of the lower mantle

Physics of the Earth and Planetary Interiors

Volumn 183, Issue 1-2, 2010, Pages 115-125

  Tarits, Pascal ^a   Mandéa, Mioara ^b   Suetsugu, Daisuke ^b   Bina, Craig ^b   Inoue, Toru ^b   Wiens, Douglas ^b   Jellinek, Mark ^b  

^a INSTITUT UNIVERSITAIRE EUROPÉEN DE LA MER   (France)

^b INSTITUT DE PHYSIQUE DU GLOBE DE PARIS   (France)

Author keywords

Lower mantle conductivity; Lower mantle heterogeneities; Monthly mean geomagnetic data; Three dimensional electromagnetic inversion

Indexed keywords

CENTRAL AMERICA; COMPOSITIONAL EFFECTS; CONDUCTIVITY STRUCTURES; DATA SETS; DEPTH RANGE; EASTERN AFRICA; ELECTRICAL CONDUCTIVITY; ELECTROMAGNETIC INVERSION; EURASIA; FIELD MODEL; GEOMAGNETIC DATA; GLOBAL ANALYSIS; HIGH CONDUCTIVITY; INITIAL CONDITIONS; LOWER MANTLE; MAGNETIC DATA; MEAN VALUES; SEISMIC TOMOGRAPHY; SYNTHETIC DATA; TIME-DOMAIN TECHNIQUE;

ELECTRIC CONDUCTIVITY; ELECTROMAGNETISM; GEOMAGNETISM; MAGNETIC FIELD MEASUREMENT; MAGNETIC MATERIALS; SEISMOLOGY; THREE DIMENSIONAL; TOMOGRAPHY;

TIME DOMAIN ANALYSIS;

DATA INVERSION; ELECTRICAL CONDUCTIVITY; ELECTRICAL RESISTIVITY; ELECTROMAGNETIC METHOD; GEOMAGNETIC FIELD; LOWER MANTLE;

EID: 78649446984     PISSN: 00319201     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.pepi.2010.08.002     Document Type: Article

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