Is the electrical conductivity of the northwestern Pacific upper mantle normal?

Geochemistry, Geophysics, Geosystems

Volumn 14, Issue 12, 2013, Pages 4969-4979

  Baba, Kiyoshi ^a   Tada, Noriko ^a,b   Zhang, Luolei ^a   Liang, Pengfei ^a   Shimizu, Hisayoshi ^a   Utada, Hisashi ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

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

Author keywords

electrical conductivity; marine magnetotellurics; oceanic lithosphere and asthenosphere

Indexed keywords

ELECTRICAL CONDUCTIVITY; ELECTRICAL STRUCTURES; ELECTROMAGNETIC SURVEYS; GEOPHYSICAL OBSERVATIONS; LITHOSPHERIC THICKNESS; MAGNETOTELLURIC METHODS; OCEANIC LITHOSPHERE; PRELIMINARY ANALYSIS;

ELECTRIC CONDUCTIVITY; MAGNETOTELLURICS; SURVEYS; TECTONICS;

STRUCTURAL GEOLOGY;

ASTHENOSPHERE; COOLING; ELECTRICAL CONDUCTIVITY; ELECTROMAGNETIC SURVEY; MAGNETOTELLURIC METHOD; MARINE ENVIRONMENT; OCEANIC LITHOSPHERE; SEAFLOOR; TRENCH; UPPER MANTLE;

PACIFIC OCEAN; PACIFIC OCEAN (NORTHWEST); PHILIPPINE SEA;

EID: 84892469650     PISSN: None     EISSN: 15252027     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/2013GC004997     Document Type: Article

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