Collaborative Research: The APPLE-Anisotropy and Physics of the Pacific Lithosphere Experiment

该项目是一项可控源电磁和大地电磁联合研究，旨在明确地解决从近地表到地壳和上地幔的电各向异性的走向和深度范围。 所收集的数据将提供大洋中脊地壳形成期间产生的应变状态的深度限制和排列、当今板块运动期间韧性流动排列程度的限制、表示岩石圈的热边界层的深度以及对地幔导电机制的深入了解，特别是溶解在橄榄石中的氢增强a轴方向上的传导的提议。

This project is a combined controlled source electromagnetic and magnetotelluric study designed to resolve unambiguously the strike direction and depth extent of electrical anisotropy from the near-surface through the crust and upper mantle. The data collected will provide depth constraints on and alignment of the strain regime generated during the mid-ocean ridge crust formation, constraints on the extent an alignment of ductile flow during present day plate motion, depth of the thermal boundary layer that denotes the lithosphere, and insight into electrical conduction mechanisms in the mantle, particularly the proposal that hydrogen dissolved in olivine enhances conduction in the a-axis direction.