Electromagnetic Studies Of The Lithosphere And Asthenosphere

In geodynamic models of the Earth's interior, the lithosphere and asthenosphere are defined in terms of their rheology. Lithosphere has high viscosity, and can be divided into an elastic region at temperatures below 350 °C and an anelastic region above 650 °C. Beneath the lithosphere lies the ductile asthenosphere, with one- to two-orders of magnitude lower viscosity. Asthenosphere represents the location in the mantle where the melting point (solidus) is most closely approached, and sometimes intersected. Seismic, gravity and isostatic observations provide constraints on lithosphere-asthenosphere structure in terms of shear-rigidity, density and viscosity, which are all rheological properties. In particular, seismic shear- and surface-wave analyses produce estimates of a low-velocity zone (LVZ) asthenosphere at depths comparable to the predicted rheological transitions. Heat flow measurements on the ocean floor also provide a measure of the thermal structure of the lithosphere.Electromagnetic (EM) observations provide complementary information on lithosphere-asthenosphere structure in terms of electrical conductivity. Laboratory studies of mantle minerals show that EM observations are very sensitive to the presence of melt or volatiles. A high conductivity zone (HCZ) in the upper mantle therefore represents an electrical asthenosphere (containing melt and/or volatile) that may be distinct from a rheological asthenosphere and the LVZ. Additionally, the vector propagation of EM fields in the Earth provides information on anisotropic conduction in the lithosphere and asthenosphere. In the last decade, numerous EM studies have focussed on the delineation of an HCZ in the upper mantle, and the determination of melt/volatile fractions and the dynamics of the lithosphere-asthenosphere. Such HCZs have been imaged under a variety of tectonic zones, including mid-ocean ridges and continental rifts, but Archaean shields show little evidence of an HCZ, implying that the geotherm is always below the mantle solidus. Anisotropy in the conductivity of oceanic and continental lithosphere has also been detected, but it is not clear if the HCZ is also anisotropic. Although much progress has been made, these results have raised new and interesting questions of asthenosphere melt/volatiles porosity and permeability, and lithosphere-upper mantle heterogeneity. It is likely that in the next decade EM will continue to make a significant contribution to our understanding of plate tectonic processes.     

辽东半岛五龙金矿床航空电磁场特征及找矿意义

五龙金矿床位于五龙矿集区中部,是矿集区内规模大的石英脉型金矿。为查明矿集区深部构造及指导深部找矿预测,需结合深部地球物理资料综合分析研究。本文基于五龙矿集区航空探测任务,并结合其成矿地质特征,研究了五龙金矿在平面、剖面、空间等维度的航磁、航空TEM、航空大地电磁特征及其找矿意义。研究表明：平面上矿体位于鸡心沟断裂东侧负磁背景场中NE与近SN、NW向弱磁异常带交汇处,中等 强剩余磁异常带的转折端、梯度带,视电阻率低阻区及中低阻梯度带,深部存在团块状视磁化率高值区;剖面上矿体位于“左低右高,上高下低”的视电阻率梯度带上,呈中低阻、低阻特征及强磁场区至弱磁场区的视磁化率梯度带上,呈浅部“上高下低”、深部“下高上低”的中等 弱磁特征;空间上矿体位于鸡心沟断裂东侧的断裂构造低阻带与岩体高阻异常带的梯度带。五龙金矿地质地球物理找矿标志的建立和深部高视磁化率异常区的存在,表明矿区深部1000~2000m空间与五龙金矿体视电阻率、视磁化率特征相似的地段,仍具有较好找矿潜力。     

甚低频电磁法在柴胡栏子金矿间接找矿中的应用

老矿山资源危机迫切需要经济有效的找矿手段,在矿区外围寻找新矿段,增加开采储量.甚低频电磁法(VLF-EM)是可以选择的对象.在具备甚低频电磁法应用的地质、地球物理前提下,通过对所测数据进行技术处理,并且结合矿区地质研究控矿规律及矿体赋存规律,从而有效地圈定掩盖区异常地质体及其产状和展布方向,预测矿体空间赋存部位,为深部找矿提供依据.     

地震电磁卫星精密定轨方法研究

高精度卫星轨道是提高卫星应用水平的基础,卫星精密定轨方法主要基于卫星轨道动力学理论．通过跟踪卫星轨迹的测轨技术,将几何和动力学信息进行融合。地震电磁卫星拟采用星载GPS和综合轨道求解方法进行精密定轨．并辅之以人卫激光测距,其定轨的精度可达厘米级。     

航空物探勘查金属矿产时提取弱信息的解释方法

摘 要　 结构逻辑法是一种提取航空物探局部弱信息的新的解释方法。在介绍该方法原理的 基础上‚探讨了利用这种方法提取航空物探局部弱信息的效果及其在矿产资源快速勘查评价 中的作用。     

新疆哈密沙泉子地区断裂构造航空重磁遥特征及相关性分析

为了研究航空物探（重、磁）及遥感在断裂构造研究中的关系,利用新疆哈密沙泉子地区开展的航空物探（重、磁）遥感调查数据,开展了该区断裂构造划分,共划分断裂构造18条。对划分的18条断裂进行了重磁遥特征及相关性分析,结果显示,区内所划分的一、二级断裂均为重磁遥相关,重磁遥相关的三级断裂也是与主体构造格架方向一致的断裂;重磁、磁遥相关断裂均为三级断裂,不相关断裂也是三级断裂。总体上,利用重磁遥资料进行大断裂或主体格架断裂划分时关联性更好。     

1999～2002年地震预报研究进展

回顾了中国在1999~2002年开展地震预测、预报研究的进展. 重点回顾了在此期间利用地震学、形变、电磁、流体和综合5类学科方法开展中短期地震预报研究的成果，以及这些成果在地震预报实践中的探索性应用.      

Singular value decomposition as a denoising tool for airborne time domain electromagnetic data

Airborne time domain electromagnetic (TDEM) surveys are increasingly carried out in anthropized areas as part of environmental studies. In such areas, noise arises mainly from either natural sources, such as spherics, or cultural sources, such as couplings with man-made installations. This results in various distortions on the measured decays, which make the EM noise spectrum complex and may lead to erroneous inversion and subsequent misinterpretations. Thresholding and stacking standard techniques, commonly used to filter TDEM data, are less efficient in such environment, requiring a time-consuming and subjective manual editing. The aim of this study was therefore to propose an alternative fast and efficient user-assisted filtering approach. This was achieved using the singular value decomposition (SVD). The SVD method uses the principal component analysis to extract into components the dominant shapes from a series of raw input curves. EM decays can then be reconstructed with particular components only. To do so, we had to adapt and implement the SVD, firstly, to separate clearly and so identify easily the components containing the geological signal, and then to denoise properly TDEM data.The reconstructed decays were used to detect noisy gates on their corresponding measured decays. This denoising step allowed rejecting efficiently mainly spikes and oscillations. Then, we focused on couplings with man-made installations, which may result in artifacts on the inverted models. An analysis of the map of weights of the selected “noisy components” highlighted high correlations with man-made installations localized by the flight video. We had therefore a tool to cull most likely decays biased by capacitive coupling noises. Finally, rejection of decays affected by galvanic coupling noises was also possible locating them through the analysis of specific SVD components. This SVD procedure was applied on airborne TDEM data surveyed by SkyTEM Aps. over an anthropized area, on behalf of the French geological survey (BRGM), near Courtenay in Région Centre, France. The established denoising procedure provides accurate denoising tools and makes, at least, the manual cleaning less time consuming and less subjective.     

浅谈Geolord-AT空三格式导入PF的方法

像素工厂是新一代海量遥感影像处理系统,处理推扫式ADS数据"得心应手",但处理框幅数码影像如UCD,DMC等优势并不明显,尤其在加密方面。Geolord-AT是数字摄影测量工作站JX4C DPS的子项目,处理框幅数码影像如UCD,DMC等优势明显。故将二者结合,通过生产实践,提高了生产效率。     

Electrical spectroscopy of porous rocks: a review—II. Experimental results and interpretation

In the frequency range from millihertz to hundreds of megahertz, many different physical and physico-chemical processes contribute to the electrical polarization of porous water-bearing rocks. This makes the interpretation of their electrical spectra a complicated problem and requires both elaborate theories and model experiments. At high frequencies, the Maxwell–Wagner–Bruggeman–Hanai (MWBH) theory of effective media, which takes into account only bulk properties, shape and partial volume of components, is very appropriate. At low frequencies, surface films, polarization of the electrical double layer (EDL) and clustering of conductive components can produce very strong polarization; corresponding theoretical models are considered in a companion paper ( Chelidze & Gueguen 1999 , hereafter referred to as Paper I). This paper is devoted to the review of experimental data and their comparison with theoretical models.
  Experiments on saturated mineral powders and rocks with various surface areas and surface chemistries confirm the existence of significant surface contributions to the electrical spectra of conductivity and polarization of water-bearing rocks and the dominance of this contribution over MWBH values at low frequencies. The effective dielectric constant of porous saturated rocks increases with the surface-to-volume ratio of the system and strongly depends on the surface charge ( ζ potential). At ζ potential, equal to zero, the low-frequency dielectric permittivity (DP) is minimal. The experimental data on relaxation times and the magnitude of the surface polarization of water-bearing porous systems can be satisfactorily explained by theories of film polarization, diffusional polarization generated by deformation of an 'open' electrical double layer (EDL) and percolation.