Analysis of the geomagnetic induction tensor

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Jun 1974

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Physics of the Earth and Planetary Interiors, Volume 8, Issue 4, p. 301-316.

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The geomagnetic induction tensor is a means of summarizing the response of the earth at a given observing site to a geomagnetic variation ource sfield. In this paper the characteristics of the tensor elements are examined, both generally and for the special cases of one-dimensional and two-dimensional geologic structure. The first-order model is taken of uniform source fields originating external to a semi-infinite half-space. Graphical ways of presenting the information contained in an induction tensor are explored, including ellipses of rotation, polar diagrams, and diagrams analogous to the Mohr circles of elasticity theory. Criteria to distinguish ``two-dimensional'' data from ``three-dimensional'' data are established. The advantages of simultaneously recording ``normal'' and ``anomalous'' variations are demonstrated in terms of the extra tensor elements which may then be estimated. The most practical way of presenting information from many stations on a map may be by drawing, for each site, arrows which summarize the response in the vertical field and quadrics which summarize the response in the horizontal field.

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