New geoelectrical characterisation of a continental collision zone in the West-Central Pyrenees: Constraints from long period and broadband magnetotellurics

Earth and Planetary Science Letters

Volumn 333-334, Issue , 2012, Pages 112-121

  Campanyà, Joan ^a   Ledo, Juanjo ^a   Queralt, Pilar ^a   Marcuello, Alex ^a   Liesa, Montserrat ^a   Muñoz, Josep A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BARCELONA   (Spain)

Author keywords

Continental collision; Lithosphere asthenosphere boundary; Magnetotelluric; Partial melting; Pyrenees; Variscan orogeny

Indexed keywords

CONTINENTAL COLLISIONS; LITHOSPHERE-ASTHENOSPHERE BOUNDARY; MAGNETOTELLURIC; PARTIAL MELTING; PYRENEES; VARISCAN;

ELECTRIC CONDUCTIVITY; MAGNETOTELLURICS; MELTING; PLATES (STRUCTURAL COMPONENTS); SEDIMENTOLOGY; SEDIMENTS; STRUCTURAL GEOLOGY; TELLURIC PROSPECTING;

TECTONICS;

ASTHENOSPHERE; CONTINENTAL COLLISION; ELECTRICAL CONDUCTIVITY; GEOELECTRIC FIELD; HERCYNIAN OROGENY; LITHOSPHERE; MAGNETOTELLURIC METHOD; PARTIAL MELTING;

PYRENEES;

EID: 84861156931     PISSN: 0012821X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.epsl.2012.04.018     Document Type: Article

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