Broadband (ULF-VLF) surface impedance measurements using MIMDAS

Exploration Geophysics

Volumn 31, Issue 2, 2000, Pages 173-178

  Garner, Stephen J ^a   Thiel, David V ^b  

^a MIM Exploration   (Australia)

^b GRIFFITH UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Magnetotellurics; MIMDAS; Surface impedance; Telluric profiling; ULF; VLF

Indexed keywords

EID: 85009382074     PISSN: 08123985     EISSN: 18347533     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1071/EG00173     Document Type: Article

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