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Volume 49, Issue 5
  • ISSN: 0812-3985
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Measurements of natural time-fluctuating magnetic and electric fields at the surface of Earth produce magnetotelluric data, most of which can be expressed as quantities invariant to the directions of field measurement. Such invariants give information on geological structure.

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A decomposition of the magnetotelluric tensor is described in terms of quantities which are invariant to the rotation of observing axes, and which also are distinct measures of the 1D, 2D or 3D characteristics of the tensor and so may be useful in dimensionality analysis. When the in-phase and quadrature parts of the tensor are analysed separately there are two invariants which gauge 1D structure, two invariants which gauge 2D structure, and three invariants which gauge 3D structure. A matrix method similar to singular value decomposition is used to determine many of the invariants, and their display is then possible on Mohr diagrams. A particular set of invariants proposed some seventeen years ago is revised to yield an improved set. Several possibilities for the seventh invariant are canvassed, and illustrated by examples from field data. Low values of Δ, the invariant now preferred for ‘the 7th’, may indicate a particular simplification of otherwise complicated three-dimensional structure.

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Keyword(s): crustal structure; decomposition; electromagnetic methods; magnetotellurics; tensor

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