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Two-Dimensional Interpretation of Ear-Remote Reference Magnetotelluric Data for Geothermal Application  

Lee, Tae-Jong (Ground Water and Geothermal Resources Division, Korea Institute of Geoscience and Mineral Resources)
Song, Yoon-Ho (Ground Water and Geothermal Resources Division, Korea Institute of Geoscience and Mineral Resources)
Uchida, Toshihiro (National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology of Japan)
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Geophysics and Geophysical Exploration / v.8, no.2, 2005 , pp. 145-155 More about this Journal
Abstract
A two-dimensional (2-D) interpretation of MT data has been performed for the purpose of fracture detection for geothermal development. Remote stations have been operated in Kyushu, Japan (480 km apart) as well as in Korea (60 km and 165 km apart in 2002 and 2003 data set, respectively). Apparent resistivity and phase curves calculated by remote processing with the Japan remote data showed enough quality for 2-D inversion for the whole frequency range. Remote reference processing with Korea remote reference data also showed quite good continuity in apparent resistivity and phase curves except some noisy frequency bands; around the power frequency, 60 Hz, and around the dead band $10^{-1}Hz\;Hz\;\~1\;Hz$, where the natural EM signal is known to be very weak. Even though the subsurface showed severe three-dimensional (3-D) characteristics in the survey area so that 2-D inversion by itself could not give enough information for deep geological structures, the 2-D inversion for the 5 survey lines showed several common features. The conductive semi-consolidate mudstone layer is dipping from north to south (about 500 m depth on the south and 200 m on the north most part of the survey area). The boundary between the low (L-2) and high (H-2) resistivity anomalies can be thought as a major fault with strike $N15^{\circ}E$, passing through the sites 206, 112 and 414. The shallow (< 1 km) conductive anomalies (L-4) seem to be fracture zones having strike E-W (at site 105) and $N60^{\circ}W$ (at site 434). And there exists a conductive layer in the western and west-southern part of the survey area in the depth below $2\~3\;km$, for which further investigation is to be needed.
Keywords
geothermal development; Pohang; remote-reference MT; 2-D inversion;
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