Electromagnetic investigation of the Eyre Peninsula conductivity anomaly

Igor Popkov; Antony White; Graham Heinson; Steven Constable; Peter Milligan; F.E.M. (Ted) Lilley

doi:10.1071/EG00187

ISSN: 0812-3985
E-ISSN: 1834-7533

Electromagnetic investigation of the Eyre Peninsula conductivity anomaly
Authors Igor Popkov^a, Antony White^b, Graham Heinson^c, Steven Constable^d, Peter Milligan^e and F.E.M. (Ted) Lilley^f
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^a School of Chemistry, Physics and Earth Sciences Flinders University, GPO Box 2100, Adelaide, SA, 5001, Phone: (08) 8201 2978, Facsimile: (08) 8201 2676, Email: [email protected] ^b School of Chemistry, Physics and Earth Sciences Flinders University, GPO Box 2100, Adelaide, SA, 5001, Phone: (08) 8201 2359, Facsimile: (08) 8201 2676, Email: [email protected] ^c School of Chemistry, Physics and Earth Sciences Flinders University, GPO Box 2100, Adelaide, SA, 5001, Phone: (08) 8201 2607, Facsimile: (08) 8201 2676, Email: [email protected] ^d Scripps Institution of Oceanography IGPP-0225, La Jolla, CA, , U.S.A., 92093-0225, Phone: +1-858-534-4209, Facsimile: +1-858-534-8090, Email: [email protected] ^e Australian Geological Survey Organisation, GPO Box 378 Canberra ACT 2601, Phone: (02) 6249 9224, Facsimile: (02) 6249 9999, Email: [email protected] ^f Research School of Earth Sciences Australian National University, Mills Road, Canberra ACT, 0200, Phone: (02) 6249 3406, Facsimile: (02) 6249 0738, Email: [email protected]
Publisher: Australian Society of Exploration Geophysicists
Source: Exploration Geophysics, Volume 31, Issue 1-2, Mar 2000, p. 187 - 191
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1071/EG00187
- Published online: 01 Mar 2000

Abstract

Seafloor and land magnetotelluric (MT) data were collected in the SWAGGIE (Southern Waters of Australia Geoelectric and Geomagnetic Induction Experiment) project in April-May 1998, from 30 seafloor and 23 land sites. The principal objective of the experiment was to delineate the strike and depth of a zone of high electrical conductivity, known as the Eyre Peninsula Anomaly (EPA) in South Australia. Three linear arrays of marine magnetotelluric instruments were deployed across the continental shelf and slope to locate the offshore extension of the EPA on the continental margin, and to image the continental-oceanic lithosphere-asthenosphere transition. A land array of magnetometers was deployed at the same time to better resolve the EPA in the southern Eyre Peninsula. Robust remote-reference processing of time-series magnetic and electric data gives good MT and geomagnetic depth sounding responses in the bandwidth of 10¹ to 10⁵ s, corresponding to skin-depths of mid-crustal (10 km) to mantle transition (400 km) range. Initial processing of marine and land data clearly indicates that the EPA is continuous to the edge of the continental shelf, with a conductance greater than 15 000 S confined to a narrow, near-vertical zone. At sites distant from the EPA, one-dimensional MT inversions fit the data well and provide a background conductivity structure for two and three-dimensional forward and inverse modelling of the EPA.

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Keyword(s): Electrical conductivity; Eyre Peninsula; geomagnetic depth sounding; sea-floor magnetotellurics

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