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  • Exploration Geophysics: Magnetic and electrical methods
  • Exploration Geophysics: Continental structures
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Abstract

GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH LETTERS, VOL. 31, L10615, 4 PP., 2004
doi:10.1029/2004GL019903

Electrical structure across a major ice-covered fault belt in Northern Victoria Land (East Antarctica)

E. Armadillo

Dipartimento per lo Studio del Territorio e delle sue Risorse, Università di Genova, Italy

F. Ferraccioli

British Antarctic Survey, Cambridge, UK

G. Tabellario

Dipartimento per lo Studio del Territorio e delle sue Risorse, Università di Genova, Italy

E. Bozzo

Dipartimento per lo Studio del Territorio e delle sue Risorse, Università di Genova, Italy

A Geomagnetic Depth Sounding profile was performed across the glaciated Rennick Graben and the adjacent fault-bounded terranes of northern Victoria Land in East Antarctica. Induction arrows analysis and a 2D inversion model provide a unique deep electrical resistivity window beneath these fault zones. The electrical resistivity break across the Lanterman Fault is apparently restricted to the upper crust, suggesting that this strike-slip fault may not represent a deep lithospheric suture. Further east, a westward-dipping conductor is traced to a depth of 40 km beneath the Robertson Bay Terrane. It may image a remnant of the paleo-Pacific oceanic plate, which subducted beneath the Bowers Terrane. Within the Wilson Terrane, the Rennick Graben is an upper-crust resistive block. The Rennick Graben lacks a deep crustal or upper mantle conductor, in contrast to several continental rifts. However, similar resistive lower crust underlies some other major strike-slip fault belts.

Received 5 March 2004; accepted 5 May 2004; published 29 May 2004.

Citation: Armadillo, E., F. Ferraccioli, G. Tabellario, and E. Bozzo (2004), Electrical structure across a major ice-covered fault belt in Northern Victoria Land (East Antarctica), Geophys. Res. Lett., 31, L10615, doi:10.1029/2004GL019903.

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