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Magnetotelluric sounding (MTS) is a method of studying electrical conductivity of the Earth’s interior based on skin-effect and involving impedance measurements at a physical point on the Earth’s surface, viz. Measurements of the ratio of electric to magnetic horizontal components of the natural variation field.
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Rokityansky, I.I. (1982). Magnetotelluric Sounding. In: Geoelectromagnetic Investigation of the Earth’s Crust and Mantle. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-61801-7_5
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