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Oceanic mantle conductivity structure determined from magnetotelluric data: Hollister revisited

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  1. Department of Earth, Atmospheric and Planetary Sciences, MIT, Cambridge, MA

    Wenjie Dong, Randall Mackie & Theodore Madden

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Dong, W., Mackie, R., Madden, T. (1998). Oceanic mantle conductivity structure determined from magnetotelluric data: Hollister revisited. In: Roy, K.K., Verma, S.K., Mallick, K. (eds) Deep Electromagnetic Exploration. Lecture Notes in Earth Sciences, vol 83. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/BFb0011913

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