Constraints on the crustal structure of the internal Variscan Belt in SW Europe: A magnetotelluric transect along the eastern part of Central Iberian Zone, Iberian Massif

Journal of Geophysical Research: Solid Earth

Volumn 116, Issue 2, 2011, Pages

  Pous, Jaume ^a   Martínez Poyatos, David ^b   Heise, Wiebke ^c   Santos, Fernando Monteiro ^c   Galindo Zaldívar, Jesús ^b,d   Ibarra, Pedro ^e   Pedrera, Antonio ^b   Ruiz Constán, Ana ^b   Anahnah, Farida ^b   Gonaçlves, Rui ^f   Mateus, Antonio ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BARCELONA   (Spain)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GRANADA   (Spain)

^c UNIVERSITY OF LISBON   (Portugal)

^d INSTITUTO ANDALUZ DE CIENCIAS DE LA TIERRA   (Spain)

^e INSTITUTO GEOLÓGICO Y MINERO DE ESPAÑA   (Spain)

^f INSTITUTO POLITÉCNICO DE TOMAR   (Portugal)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BASEMENT ROCK; CRUSTAL STRUCTURE; DATA INVERSION; ELECTRICAL CONDUCTIVITY; ELECTRICAL RESISTIVITY; HERCYNIAN OROGENY; MAGNETOTELLURIC METHOD; PALEOZOIC; SUPERCONTINENT; TECTONIC STRUCTURE; TERRANE; TRANSPRESSION; UPPER CRUST;

CENTRAL IBERIAN ZONE; IBERIAN MASSIF; OSSA MORENA ZONE; TAGUS BASIN;

EID: 79951781752     PISSN: 21699313     EISSN: 21699356     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2010JB007538     Document Type: Article

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