Approximate treatment of seafloor topographic effects in three-dimensional marine magnetotelluric inversion

Earth, Planets and Space

Volumn 64, Issue 11, 2012, Pages 1005-1021

  Tada, Noriko ^a,b   Baba, Kiyoshi ^b   Siripunvaraporn, Weerachai ^b,c,d   Uyeshima, Makoto ^b   Utada, Hisashi ^b  

^a JAPAN AGENCY FOR MARINE EARTH SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Japan)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

^c Mahidol University   (Thailand)

^d Thailand Ministry of Science and Technology   (Thailand)

Author keywords

3 D inversion; Electrical conductivity; Marine magnetotellurics; Topographic effects

Indexed keywords

ELECTRIC FIELD; ELECTRICAL CONDUCTIVITY; INVERSE ANALYSIS; MAGNETIC FIELD; MAGNETOTELLURIC METHOD; SEAFLOOR; THREE-DIMENSIONAL MODELING; TOPOGRAPHY;

EID: 84876365997     PISSN: 13438832     EISSN: 18805981     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5047/eps.2012.04.005     Document Type: Article

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