Water Content in the Mantle Transition Zone Beneath the North Pacific Derived from the Electrical Conductivity Anomaly

Earth's Deep Water Cycle

Volumn , Issue , 2013, Pages 171-179

  Koyama, Takao ^a,b   Shimizu, Hisayoshi ^a   Utada, Hisashi ^a   Ichiki, Masahiro ^b   Ohtani, Eiji ^c   Hae, Ryota ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

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

^c TOHOKU UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Earth Mantle; Geodynamics; Geology; Groundwater; Hydrologic cycle

Indexed keywords

GEODYNAMICS; GEOLOGY; GROUNDWATER; SEISMIC WAVES; SEISMOLOGY; WATER SUPPLY SYSTEMS; WAVE PROPAGATION;

EARTH MANTLE; ELECTRICAL CONDUCTIVITY; ELECTROMAGNETIC TOMOGRAPHY; HIGH ELECTRICAL CONDUCTIVITY; HYDROLOGIC CYCLES; LABORATORY EXPERIMENTS; LABORATORY MEASUREMENTS; MANTLE TRANSITION ZONE;

ELECTRIC CONDUCTIVITY;

EID: 84952775313     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1029/168GM13     Document Type: Chapter

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