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Redbank Thrust Zone Long-Period MT Profile 2003-05 LPMT

Magnetotelluric survey · Northern Territory · Adelaide University

Cite this survey

Cite as: Selway, K.; Heinson, G.; Hand, M. (2005): Redbank Thrust Zone Long-Period MT Profile 2003-05. Version 1.0.0. Adelaide University. https://ausmt.auscope.org.au/surveys/redbank-thrust-zone-2003-05

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Twenty-one long-period magnetotelluric soundings on a north-trending profile across the Redbank Thrust Zone in central Australia, Northern Territory.

10 km
23.78°S - 22.59°S · 132.25°E - 132.71°E
21
stations
LPMT
data type
2003 - 2005
acquired
16 - 2,731 s
period coverage
Ex Ey Bx By Bz
channels recorded
21 / 21
tipper stations
1.0.0
version

About this survey

Twenty-one long-period magnetotelluric soundings on a north-trending profile across the Redbank Thrust Zone in central Australia, Northern Territory. Eighteen labels run rtz1 to rtz22 with four absent, and three sites are infill, i2 to i4. The chord from rtz1 to rtz22 is 137.0 km and the line bows up to 22.4 km west of it. Every site declares Ex, Ey, Hx, Hy, Hz, every file carries a tipper, and the transfer functions span 16 s to 2,731 s on a 23 point ladder. Selway (2006) records the fieldwork as three seasons in 2003, 2004 and 2005, the code RRRMT with jackknife errors, and the Alice Springs magnetic observatory as the remote reference. These are the soundings behind Selway, Heinson and Hand (2006), which reports a 140 km line imaging a crustal-scale conductivity contrast at the thrust zone. The served files are a 2026 Geotools export; the elevations and per-station dates it dropped are stated as unknown.

Data and downloads

L2Transfer functions

Hosted by AusMT

EDI archive (zip)21 stations · 65 KBDownload ↓
Survey MTH5 bundle21 stations · 1.4 MBDownload ↓
EMTF XML archive (zip)21 stations · 74 KBDownload ↓
Integrity details
EDI archive (zip)sha256 61904d53e9d9cc9eb4de550d526918e254fd7e9ee7d7d16610ae206f406d3ea7
Survey MTH5 bundlesha256 1de784699dea328946c34be129d9955a8507af103563059d57672738018bd4a7
EMTF XML archive (zip)sha256 13afdb4f50f7a6b5b818c9290dc14909e9753bbb07804c61c55a56cdc033917b

Stations (21)

StationLatLonT max (s)Time series
i2-23.271436132.417222,731-
i3-23.295718132.3480532,048-
i4-23.345849132.2889322,048-
rtz1-23.780368132.3531612,048-
rtz11-23.279583132.3633022,048-
rtz13-23.215577132.6100232,048-
rtz14-23.180177132.6542741,024-
rtz15-23.134722132.6972082,048-
rtz17-22.995187132.6833942,048-
rtz18-22.931296132.6558552,048-
rtz19-22.857545132.6224711,024-
rtz2-23.761607132.3507652,048-
rtz20-22.71792132.6669431,024-
rtz21-22.65943132.6966312,048-
rtz22-22.593222132.7130091,638-
rtz3-23.735071132.3455272,048-
rtz4-23.702244132.3523872,048-
rtz5-23.514464132.2988592,048-
rtz6-23.468344132.2793012,048-
rtz8-23.363804132.2523832,048-
rtz9-23.324625132.315967683-

Contributors and organisations

Organisation
Adelaide University
Licence
CC BY 4.0
Instruments
Bartington three component fluxgate magnetometer, no model number stated
unknown copper/copper sulphate porous pot electrodes on 20 to 100 m dipoles
Processing
RRRMT
Funding
Northern Territory Geological Survey

Publications

Selway, K., Heinson, G., and Hand, M. (2006). Electrical evidence of continental accretion: Steeply-dipping crustal-scale conductivity contrast. Geophysical Research Letters 33(6). 10.1029/2005GL025328

Selway, K.M. (2006). Magnetotelluric experiments in central and southern Australia and their implications for tectonic evolution; this line is chapter 4, PDF 53 to 62, with its station grid in Appendix 1, PDF 133. PhD thesis, The University of Adelaide. hdl:2440/110300.

Identifiers and provenance

Machine-readable survey record · catalogue schema mtcat 2.0