Electromagnetic studies in the Fennoscandian Shield-electrical conductivity of Precambrian crust

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Dec 1993

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Physics of the Earth and Planetary Interiors, Volume 81, Issue 1-4, p. 107-138.

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Electromagnetic (EM) investigations of the 1980s in the Fennoscandian (Baltic) Shield produced an unique and unified EM data set. Studies include regional investigations by the magnetovariational (MV) method with large lateral sampling distance, investigations of anomalous conductivity structures by magnetotelluric (MT) soundings and other (EM) and electrical methods (audio MT soundings, d.c. dipole-dipole and VLF resistivity profilings) with shorter sampling distance, and studies of the near-surface conductivity by airborne EM surveys. The variety of methods provide an ability to map efficiently crustal conductivity structures from a regional scale of hundreds of kilometres down to local details of some metres in the anomalous structures. The Precambrian of the Fennoscandian Shield is characterized by roughly NW-SE-directed elongated belts of conductors which separate more resistive crustal blocks. The latter serve as transparent windows through which to probe deep electrical structure and belts of conductors as tectonic markers of ancient orogenic zones including (1) the Kittilä-Vetrenny Poyas conductor, (2) the Lapland Granulite Belt and Inari-Pechenga-Imandra-Varzuga conductors, (3) the Archaean-Proterozoic boundary conductor and (4) the Southern Finland Conductor. The conductive belts-orogenic conductors-indicate places where crustal masses collided and were finally sealed together. Enhanced conductivity in the orogenic conductors is caused primarily by an electronic conducting mechanism in graphite- and sulphide-bearing metasedimentary rocks. Estimations of the lower-crustal conductivity indicate a laterally heterogeneous lower crust in the Fennoscandian Shield. Archaean lower crust seems to be in general more resistive than the Early Proterozoic lower crust of the Karelian and Svecofennian Domains. The lower crust in the southwestern part of the Svecofennian Domain and in the Sveconorwegian Domain seems to be more resistive than in the central part of the Svecofennian Domain.

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