{"id":876,"date":"2023-12-18T12:40:14","date_gmt":"2023-12-18T17:40:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www2.whoi.edu\/site\/elecctro\/?page_id=876"},"modified":"2024-01-04T11:28:38","modified_gmt":"2024-01-04T16:28:38","slug":"magic","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www2.whoi.edu\/site\/elecctro\/projects\/magic\/","title":{"rendered":"MAGIC"},"content":{"rendered":"\n\n<h1>MAGIC and other Eastern US projects<\/h1>\n<p>MT data were collected along a line roughly coincident with the MAGIC seismic experiment.\u00a0 Thick (&gt;100km) lithosphere, cold dry material that is a poor conductor of electrical current, is seen at each end of the profile. But the lithosphere beneath the mountains in markedly thinner. We see evidence for a small amount of molten material (melt) below this thinned region and infer that the melt has eroded away the base of what was presumably a much thicker lithosphere in the past. Interestingly, the region of thinnest lithosphere sits just to the west of a region where there was a volcanic eruption some 50 million years ago.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www2.whoi.edu\/site\/elecctro\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/158\/2023\/12\/Picturem.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"1068\" height=\"800\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n\t<h3>Funding Agencies<\/h3>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nsf.gov\"><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www2.whoi.edu\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2016\/09\/nsf.png\" alt=\"nsf logo\" width=\"80\" height=\"80\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n\t<h3>Collaborators<\/h3>\n<p>This is a joint project with Maureen Long and Maggie Benoit<b>.<\/b><\/p>\n\t<h3>Research Papers<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1016\/j.epsl.2019.04.046\">Thin Lithosphere Beneath the Appalachian Mountains: A Combined Seismic and Magnetotelluric Study<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1785\/0220200150\">The MAGIC experiment: A combined seismic and magnetotelluric deployment to investigate the structure, dynamics, and evolution of the central Appalachians<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1029\/2021JB022571\">Evaluating models for lithospheric loss and intraplate volcanism beneath the Central Appalachian Mountains<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1029\/2022GC010690\">Joint analysis of seismic and electrical observables beneath the Central Appalachians requires partial melt in the upper mantle<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MAGIC and other Eastern US projects MT data were collected along a line roughly coincident with the MAGIC seismic experiment.\u00a0 Thick (&gt;100km) lithosphere, cold dry material that is a poor conductor of electrical current, is seen at each end of the profile. But the lithosphere beneath the mountains in markedly thinner. We see evidence for&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":182,"featured_media":0,"parent":21,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www2.whoi.edu\/site\/elecctro\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/876"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www2.whoi.edu\/site\/elecctro\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www2.whoi.edu\/site\/elecctro\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www2.whoi.edu\/site\/elecctro\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/182"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www2.whoi.edu\/site\/elecctro\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=876"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www2.whoi.edu\/site\/elecctro\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/876\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":930,"href":"https:\/\/www2.whoi.edu\/site\/elecctro\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/876\/revisions\/930"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www2.whoi.edu\/site\/elecctro\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/21"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www2.whoi.edu\/site\/elecctro\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=876"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}