Three-dimensional imaging of electrical conductivity in the mantle transition zone beneath the North Pacific Ocean by a semi-global induction study

Physics of the Earth and Planetary Interiors

Volumn 183, Issue 1-2, 2010, Pages 252-269

  Shimizu, Hisayoshi ^a   Utada, Hisashi ^a   Baba, Kiyoshi ^a   Koyama, Takao ^b   Obayashi, Masayuki ^b   Fukao, Yoshio ^b   Suetsugu, Daisuke ^b   Bina, Craig ^b   Inoue, Toru ^b   Wiens, Douglas ^b   Jellinek, Mark ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

^b JAPAN AGENCY FOR MARINE EARTH SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Electrical conductivity; Electromagnetic induction; Mantle dynamics; Mantle transition zone

Indexed keywords

AVERAGE STRUCTURE; CONDUCTIVITY MODELS; EFFECT OF WATER; ELECTRICAL CONDUCTIVITY; ELECTRICAL CONDUCTIVITY DISTRIBUTION; HAWAIIAN ISLANDS; HIGH CONDUCTIVITY; HIGH WATER CONTENT; LONG BASE LINE; LOW CONDUCTIVITY; MANTLE DYNAMICS; MANTLE TRANSITION ZONE; NORTH PACIFIC; NORTH PACIFIC OCEAN; ONE-DIMENSIONAL (1D) MODELS; SEISMIC TOMOGRAPHY; SEMI-GLOBAL; TEMPERATURE EFFECTS; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING;

ARRHENIUS PLOTS; CABLES; ELECTRIC CONDUCTIVITY; ELECTROMAGNETIC INDUCTION; GEOMAGNETISM; INDUCTANCE MEASUREMENT; SEISMOLOGY; TELECOMMUNICATION EQUIPMENT; TELEGRAPH; TOMOGRAPHY; WATER CONTENT;

THREE DIMENSIONAL;

ELECTRICAL CONDUCTIVITY; ELECTROMAGNETIC METHOD; IMAGING METHOD; MANTLE STRUCTURE; TEMPERATURE EFFECT; THREE-DIMENSIONAL MODELING; TRANSITION ZONE; WATER CONTENT;

HAWAIIAN ISLANDS; JAPAN; PACIFIC OCEAN; PACIFIC OCEAN (NORTH); PHILIPPINE SEA;

EID: 78649449978     PISSN: 00319201     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.pepi.2010.01.010     Document Type: Article

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