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- Cherevatova, M., et al.
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Magnetotelluric array data analysis from north-west Fennoscandia
- 2015
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Ingår i: Tectonophysics. - : Elsevier BV. - 0040-1951 .- 1879-3266. ; 653, s. 1-19
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- New magnetotelluric (MT) data in north-west Fennoscandia were acquired within the framework of the project "Magnetotellurics in the Scandes" (MaSca). The project focuses on the investigation of the crustal and upper mantle lithospheric structure in the transition zone from stable Precambrian cratonic interior to passive continental margin beneath the Caledonian orogen and the Scandinavian Mountains in western Fennoscandia. An array of 59 synchronous long period and 220 broad-band MT sites was occupied in the summers of 2011 to 2013. We estimated MT transfer functions in the period range from 0.003 to 10(5) s. The Q-function multi-site multi-frequency analysis and the phase tensor were used to estimate strike and dimensionality of MT data. Dimensionality and strike analyses indicate generally 2-D behaviour of the data with 3-D effects at some sites and period bands. In this paper we present 2-D inversion of the data, 3-D inversion models are shown in the parallel paper. We choose to invert the determinant of the impedance tensor to mitigate 3-D effects in the data on our 2-D models. Seven crustal-scale and four lithospheric-scale 2-D models are presented. The resistive regions are images of the Archaean and Proterozoic basement in the east and thin Caledonian nappes in the west. The middle and lower crust of the Svecofennian province is conductive. The southern end of the Kittila Greenstone Belt is seen in the models as a strong upper to middle crustal conductor. In the Caledonides, the highly conductive alum shales are observed along the Caledonian Thrust Front. The thickest lithosphere is in the Palaeoproterozioc Svecofennian Domain, not in the Archaean. The thickness of the lithosphere is around 200 km in the north and 300 km in the south-west.
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- Yan, Ping, et al.
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A magnetotelluric investigation of the Scandinavian Caledonides in western Jämtland, Sweden, using the COSC borehole logs as prior information
- 2017
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Ingår i: Geophysical Journal International. - : Oxford University Press (OUP). - 0956-540X .- 1365-246X. ; 208:3, s. 1465-1489
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- In connection with the Collisional Orogeny in the Scandinavian Caledonides (COSC) project, broad-band magnetotelluric (MT) data were acquired at 78 stations along a recent ca. 55km- long NW-SE directed reflection seismic profile (referred to as the COSC Seismic Profile; CSP), with the eastern end located similar to 30 km to the west of the orogenic Caledonian front. The MT component of the project aims at (i) delineating the highly conductive (similar to 0.1 Omega . m) alum shales that are associated with an underlying main decollement and (ii) calibrating the MT model to borehole logs. Strike and distortion analyses of the MT data show a 3-D structure in the western 10 km of the profile around the 2.5 km deep COSC-1 borehole (IGSN: ICDP5054EHW1001) and a preferred strike angle of N34 degrees E in the central and eastern parts of the profile. 2-D modelling of MT impedances was tested using different inversion schemes and parameters. To adjust the resistivity structure locally around the borehole, resistivity logging data from COSC-1 were successfully employed as prior constraints in the 2-D MT inversions. Compared with the CSP, the model inverted from the determinant impedances shows the highest level of structural similarity. A shallow resistor (> 1000 Omega . m) in the top 2-3 km depth underneath the western most 10 km of the profile around COSC-1 corresponds to a zone of high seismic reflectivity, and a boundary at less than 1 km depth where the resistivity decreases rapidly from > 100 to < 1 Omega . m in the central and eastern parts of the profile coincides with the first seismic reflections. The depth to this boundary is well constrained as shown by 1-D inversions of the MT data from five selected sites and it decreases towards the Caledonian front in the east. Underneath the easternmost part of the profile, the MT data show evidence of a second deeper conductor (resistivity < 1 Omega . m) at > 3 km depth. Based upon the COSC-1 borehole logs, the CSP reflection seismic image, and the surface geologic map, the MT resistivity models were interpreted geologically. In the vicinity of COSC-1, the resistor down to 2-3 km depth pertains to the metamorphic Middle Allochthon. The up to 1000-m-thick shallow resistor in the central and eastern parts of the profile is interpreted to overly an imbricated unit at the bottom of the Lower Allochthon that includes the alum shales. In the MT resistivity model, the 300-500 m thick imbricated unit masks the main Caledonian decollement at its bottom. A second possible interpretation, though not favoured here, is that the decollement occurs along a much deeper seismic reflection shallowing from 4.5 km depth in the west to similar to 600 m depth in the east. An additional borehole (COSC-2) is planned to penetrate the Lower Allochthon and the main decollement surface in the central part of the profile and can provide information to overcome this interpretational ambiguity. Using a synthetic study, we evaluate how resistivity logs from COSC-2 can improve the 2-D inversion model.
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