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Deep electromagnetic sounding of the lithosphere in the eastern Baltic (fennoscandian) shield with high-power controlled sources and industrial power transmission lines (FENICS experiment)

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The paper addresses the technique and the first results of a unique experiment on the deep tensor frequency electromagnetic sounding, the Fennoscandian Electrical conductivity from results of sounding with Natural and Controlled Sources (FENICS). In the experiment, Energy-1 and Energy-2 generators with power of up to 200 kW and two mutually orthogonal industrial 109- and 120-km-long power transmission lines were used. The sounding frequency range was 0.1–200 Hz. The signals were measured in the Kola-Karelian region, in Finland, on Svalbard, and in Ukraine at distances up to 2150 km from the source. The parameters of electric conductivity in the lithosphere are studied down to depths on the order of 50–70 km. A strong lateral homogeneity (the one-dimensionality) of a geoelectric section of the Earth’s crust is revealed below depths of 10–15 km. At the same time, a region with reduced transverse crustal resistivity spread over about 80 000 square kilometers is identified within the depth interval from 20 to 40 km. On the southeast the contour of the anomaly borders the zone of deepening of the Moho boundary down to 60 km in Central Finland. The results are compared with the AMT-MT sounding data and a geodynamic interpretation of the obtained information is carried out.

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Original Russian Text © A.A. Zhamaletdinov, A.N. Shevtsov, T.G. Korotkova, Yu.A. Kopytenko, V.S. Ismagilov, M.S. Petrishev, B.V. Efimov, M.B. Barannik, V.V. Kolobov, P.I. Prokopchuk, M.Yu. Smirnov, S.A. Vagin, M.I. Pertel, E.D. Tereshchenko, A.N. Vasil’ev, V.F. Grigoryev, M.B. Gokhberg, V.I. Trofimchik, Yu.M. Yampolsky, A.V. Koloskov, A.V. Fedorov, T. Korja, 2011, published in Fizika Zemli, 2011, No. 1, pp. 4–26.

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Zhamaletdinov, A.A., Shevtsov, A.N., Korotkova, T.G. et al. Deep electromagnetic sounding of the lithosphere in the eastern Baltic (fennoscandian) shield with high-power controlled sources and industrial power transmission lines (FENICS experiment). Izv., Phys. Solid Earth 47, 2–22 (2011). https://doi.org/10.1134/S1069351311010149

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