New tendencies in magnetotellurics

New tendencies in magnetotellurics

László SZARKA, Antal ÁDÁM, Viktor WESZTERGOM, Géza VARGA, András MADARASI,

Ernő PRÁCSER, László SŐRÉS, Zoltán NAGY, Péter ZAHUCZKI

Contact address: H-9401 Sopron POB 5, tel: +36 99 508342, email:

szarka@ggki.hu

Project number: T 037694, term: 2002-2005

New electromagnetic imaging method will be elaborated to investigate

subsurface, first of all deep geological structures, based on the basic

properties of the subsurface electromagnetic field expressed in the

magnetotelluric impedance tensor, and on corresponding field tests.

The possible connection between neotectonics and deep structures are

investigated by electromagnetic methods.

In the Carpatho-Pannonian basin a uniform processing, interpretation of

magnetotelluric data (both of the existing ones and those that are to be

measured along geophysical geotraverses between 2002-2005) will be done,

providing a tool to reduce unambiguity in interpretation of other

geophysical anomalies. The project is carried out by scientists at the

Geodetic and Geophysical Research Institute of the Hungarian Academy of

Sciences, Sopron and Eötvös Loránd Geophysical Institute, Budapest.