Three-dimensional inversion of large-scale EarthScope magnetotelluric data based on the integral equation method: Geoelectrical imaging of the Yellowstone conductive mantle plume

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 38, Issue 8, 2011, Pages

  Zhdanov, Michael S ^a   Smith, Robert B ^a   Gribenko, Alexander ^a   Cuma, Martin ^a   Green, Marie ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF UTAH   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

INTEGRAL EQUATIONS; MAGNETOTELLURICS; SEDIMENTARY ROCKS; TELLURIC PROSPECTING; THERMAL PLUMES; THREE DIMENSIONAL COMPUTER GRAPHICS;

3D INVERSION; COMMON PROBLEMS; COMPUTATIONAL TIME AND MEMORY; CONDUCTIVE BODIES; EFFICIENT METHOD; FORWARD MODELING; GEOELECTRICAL; HOT MATERIALS; INTEGRAL EQUATION METHODS; INVERSION METHODS; LOW-VELOCITY; MAGNETOTELLURIC DATA; MANTLE PLUME; UPPER MANTLE; WESTERN UNITED STATES; YELLOWSTONES;

THREE DIMENSIONAL;

ALGORITHM; DATABASE; GEOELECTRIC FIELD; INVERSION LAYER; LOW VELOCITY ZONE; MAGNETOTELLURIC METHOD; MANTLE PLUME; P-WAVE; TOMOGRAPHY; UPPER MANTLE; VOLCANIC ERUPTION;

UNITED STATES;

EID: 79955608558     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2011GL046953     Document Type: Article

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