Electrical conductivity of continental lithospheric mantle from integrated geophysical and petrological modeling: Application to the Kaapvaal Craton and Rehoboth Terrane, southern Africa

Journal of Geophysical Research: Solid Earth

Volumn 116, Issue 10, 2011, Pages

  Fullea, J ^a   Muller, M R ^a   Jones, A G ^a  

^a DUBLIN INSTITUTE FOR ADVANCED STUDIES   (Ireland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CONTINENTAL LITHOSPHERE; ELECTRICAL CONDUCTIVITY; GEOPHYSICAL METHOD; LITHOSPHERIC STRUCTURE; MAGNETOTELLURIC METHOD; MANTLE STRUCTURE; MINERAL DEPOSIT; MODELING; PETROLOGY; PROTEROZOIC;

KAAPVAAL CRATON;

CALLUNA VULGARIS;

EID: 80054021888     PISSN: 21699313     EISSN: 21699356     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2011JB008544     Document Type: Article

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