Imaging the Kristineberg mining area with two perpendicular magnetotelluric profiles in the Skellefte Ore District, northern Sweden

Geophysical Prospecting

Volumn 61, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 200-219

  De los Angeles Garcia Juanatey, María ^a   Hübert, Juliane ^a   Tryggvason, Ari ^a   Pedersen, Laust B ^a  

^a UPPSALA UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

2D inversion; Magnetotelluric; Mining

Indexed keywords

2D INVERSION; ALTERATION ZONES; BROADBAND MAGNETOTELLURIC; CO-LOCATED; DATA FITS; DIMENSIONALITY ANALYSIS; GEOELECTRICAL; GEOLOGICAL UNITS; GOOD DATA; IMPEDANCE TENSOR; MAGNETOTELLURIC; MINING AREAS; SEISMIC REFLECTIONS; STABLE CONDUCTIVITY;

MINING; SEISMIC WAVES;

MAGNETOTELLURICS;

DATA INVERSION; IMAGING METHOD; MAGNETOTELLURIC METHOD; MASSIVE SULFIDE; MINING; ORE DEPOSIT; SEISMIC REFLECTION; TRANSFER FUNCTION; VOLCANIC ROCK;

KRISTINEBERG MINE; SKELLEFTE RIVER; SWEDEN; VASTERBOTTEN;

EID: 84871346835     PISSN: 00168025     EISSN: 13652478     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2478.2011.01040.x     Document Type: Article

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