Melt distribution beneath a young continental rift: The Taupo Volcanic Zone, New Zealand

• Published in: Geophysical research letters Vol. 34; no. 14; pp. L14313 - n/a
• Main Authors: Heise, Wiebke, Bibby, Hugh M., Caldwell, T. Grant, Bannister, Stephen C., Ogawa, Yasuo, Takakura, Shinichi, Uchida, Toshihiro
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Washington, DC American Geophysical Union 01.07.2007; Blackwell Publishing Ltd
• Subjects: back-arc rifting; Continental tectonics; Earth sciences; Earth, ocean, space; Electromagnetics; Exact sciences and technology; extensional; General or miscellaneous; Heat generation and transport; magmatism; magnetotellurics; Planetary Sciences; Solid Surface Planets; Subduction zone processes; Tectonophysics; Volcanism; Volcanology; New Zealand; Taupo volcanic zone; North Island; magnetotellurics; back-arc rifting; magmatism; models; Australasia; concentration; lower crust; continental crust; Modeling; volcanism; crust; Pacific Plate; subduction; depth; conductivity; mantle; rifting; melts

Taupo Volcanic Zone (TVZ) is a zone of intense volcanism and rifting associated with the subduction of the Pacific Plate beneath the continental crust of New Zealand's North Island. An image of the conductivity structure beneath the central part of the TVZ has been constructed using 2‐D inverse...