Coast effect distortion of marine magnetotelluric data: Insights from a pilot study offshore northeastern Japan

Physics of the Earth and Planetary Interiors

Volumn 184, Issue 3-4, 2011, Pages 194-207

  Key, Kerry ^a   Constable, Steven ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Electrical properties; Magnetotelluric; Marine electromagnetics; Subduction zones

Indexed keywords

ELECTRIC FIELD EFFECTS; ELECTRIC FIELDS; ELECTRIC PROPERTIES; ELECTROMAGNETIC INDUCTION; MAGNETIC FIELDS; MAGNETISM; MAGNETOTELLURICS;

APPARENT RESISTIVITY; CHARACTERISTIC FREQUENCIES; CONDUCTIVITY STRUCTURES; ELECTRIC AND MAGNETIC FIELDS; MAGNETOTELLURIC; MARINE ELECTROMAGNETICS; SUBDUCTION ZONES; TRANSVERSE ELECTRIC MODES;

TRANSFER FUNCTIONS;

ALGORITHM; BROADBAND DATA; CONTINENTAL MARGIN; ELECTRICAL RESISTIVITY; ELECTROMAGNETIC FIELD; MAGNETOTELLURIC METHOD; OCEANIC LITHOSPHERE; SEAFLOOR; SUBDUCTION ZONE;

JAPAN;

EID: 79952735826     PISSN: 00319201     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.pepi.2010.11.008     Document Type: Article

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