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Volume 28 Number 4
  • E-ISSN: 1365-2478

Abstract

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Sign reversals have been observed with the one‐loop version of the TEM method in an area near Cloncurry, Queensland. This is the only area in which such a response has been recorded in seven years of field surveys by the Australian Bureau of Mineral Resources.

The geology of the area consists mainly of pyrrhotitic graphitic shale, which has resistivities as low as 0.1 Ωm and frequency effects up to 30%. The sign reversals could be due to magnetic phenomena, reflections from layers, or complex conductivity effects.

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