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Broken Hill MT 2024 AMT

Magnetotelluric survey · New South Wales · University of Sydney

Cite this survey

Cite as: AlQahtani, Y.; Ozaydin, S.; Chatzaras, V.; Rey, P. F.; Passos, T. (2024): Broken Hill MT 2024. Version 1.0.0. University of Sydney. https://ausmt.auscope.org.au/surveys/broken-hill-2024

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Twenty one broadband magnetotelluric stations recorded near Broken Hill, New South Wales, by the University of Sydney between 18 June and 3 July 2024, over a footprint of roughly 20 by 18 km covering the Broken Hill Pb-Zn-Ag deposit and the Broken Hill Group.

5 km
32.03°S - 31.86°S · 141.44°E - 141.63°E
21
stations
AMT
data type
2024
acquired
0.0001 - 2,913 s
period coverage
Ex Ey Bx By Bz
channels recorded
21 / 21
tipper stations
1.0.0
version

About this survey

Twenty one broadband magnetotelluric stations recorded near Broken Hill, New South Wales, by the University of Sydney between 18 June and 3 July 2024, over a footprint of roughly 20 by 18 km covering the Broken Hill Pb-Zn-Ag deposit and the Broken Hill Group. Acquisition used Phoenix MTU-5C receivers with MTC-155 and MTC-185 induction coils and 100 m electric dipoles, remote-referenced, each station recording between 9 and 26 hours. Processing was EMpower v2.22.0.1 and the files were written by MTpy. Served periods run 1.0e-04 s to 2913 s, 84 to 100 periods per station, 2006 periods in total. The tensors are stored in geomagnetic north. The declination the files state is 9 degrees at fourteen stations and 18 degrees at seven, so a user rotating to geographic must choose; AusMT serves them as stored and rotates nothing.

Data and downloads

L2Transfer functions

Hosted by AusMT

EDI archive (zip)21 stations · 239 KBDownload ↓
Survey MTH5 bundle21 stations · 1.6 MBDownload ↓
EMTF XML archive (zip)21 stations · 307 KBDownload ↓
Integrity details
EDI archive (zip)sha256 11581b7c19415502fac5c58e3f80b0795f29a1d54f4b5e5920c34c68c691bf61
Survey MTH5 bundlesha256 0e06f6dd93679149de10bd44c42c022771cb78c76f70e7c5aac99c0d8a1ca565
EMTF XML archive (zip)sha256 e4849efedf80f53f7f5faeeca6aeadc21d70e536d8508e3c764b0e58b69c9e47
Published release: 10.5281/zenodo.21272106

Stations (21)

StationLatLonT max (s)Time series
BH_1-31.974278141.5100561,456-
BH_10-31.979861141.5901941,456-
BH_11-32.015222141.5756112,913-
BH_12-31.932667141.5783612,016-
BH_13-31.927972141.5456671,456-
BH_14-31.933417141.5163891,456-
BH_15-31.917167141.5844171,456-
BH_16-32.035141.5945281,456-
BH_17-31.986611141.5451941,456-
BH_18-31.911028141.631417874-
BH_19-31.900306141.4650282,913-
BH_2-31.857389141.4698331,456-
BH_20-31.88675141.46651,456-
BH_21-31.888222141.44451,192-
BH_3-31.885806141.5348061,456-
BH_4-31.878083141.5006942,913-
BH_5-31.962083141.5605282,913-
BH_6-31.909778141.5154171,456-
BH_7-31.955556141.532278728-
BH_8-31.901917141.5571111,456-
BH_9-32.002583141.5915561,008-

Contributors and organisations

AlQahtani, Y.Data Collector
Ozaydin, S.0000-0002-4532-9980Data Collector
Organisation
University of Sydney
Licence
CC BY 4.0
Instruments
Phoenix MTU-5C
Processing
EMpower

Publications

AlQahtani, Y., Ozaydin, S., Chatzaras, V., Rey, P. F., and Passos, T. (2026). Why Does the Broken Hill Deposit Sit in Resistive Crust? Magnetotelluric Evidence for Metamorphic Decoupling of a World-Class Mineral System. Journal of Geophysical Research: Solid Earth. 10.1029/2026JB035666

Identifiers and provenance

Machine-readable survey record · catalogue schema mtcat 2.0