Electromagnetic Surveys - Phase Tensors (all periods)
Created: 19 Nov 2024 Revised: 05 Feb 2025

This layer contains location and survey information on electromagnetic geophysical surveys conducted within South Australia. The phase tensor is characterized by maximum, minimum phase values and skew angle. It is represented as an ellipse. The...

This layer contains location and survey information on electromagnetic geophysical surveys conducted within South Australia. The phase tensor is characterized by maximum, minimum phase values and skew angle. It is represented as an ellipse. The long and short axis of the ellipse represent the maximum and minimum phase values. Smaller ellipses represent higher resistivity and large ellipses represent lower resistivity. The principal axis indicate the strike direction with 90 degree ambiguity.

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About this record

Record No mesac411
Topic Geoscientific Information
Type of Resource Dataset
Category Type
Document Type
Contributor
Sponsor
Tenement
Tenement Holder
Operator
Geological Province
    Other
    Mine Name
    Stratigraphy
    Commodity
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      Language English
      Metadata Standard ISO 19115-3

      Citations

      Use constraints License
      License Creative Commons Attribution 4.0
      Persistent identifier https://pid.sarig.sa.gov.au/dataset/mesac411
      Citation Electromagnetic Surveys - Phase Tensors (all periods)
      https://pid.sarig.sa.gov.au/dataset/mesac411

      Technical information

      Status On Going
      Maintenance and Update Frequency
      Geographic Reference GDA2020 (EPSG:7844)
      Geo bounding box {"type":"Polygon","coordinates":[[[129,-38],[141,-38],[141,-26],[129,-26],[129,-38]]]}
      Purpose
      Magnetotelluric (MT) is a passive electromagnetic (EM) sounding technique - Measure variation in Earth's natural electrical (E) and magnetic (B) fields in time series - Ratio of E / B use to derive resistivity distribution of Earth's crust and...
      Magnetotelluric (MT) is a passive electromagnetic (EM) sounding technique - Measure variation in Earth's natural electrical (E) and magnetic (B) fields in time series - Ratio of E / B use to derive resistivity distribution of Earth's crust and upper mantle - Frequency range 10 kHz to 0.0001 Hz (0.0001 s to 10000 s) - Investigation depths of tens of metres to hundreds of kilometre

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      Lineage
      Prior to the 1990's stations were located using a combination of aerial photographs and maps. During the 1990's the Global Positioning System (GPS) came into use. Government, Industry and Academic datasets are included.
      Positional...
      Prior to the 1990's stations were located using a combination of aerial photographs and maps. During the 1990's the Global Positioning System (GPS) came into use. Government, Industry and Academic datasets are included.
      Positional accuracy:Accuracy is heavily dependent on the age of the data.

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      Attribute details

      Name Definition
      ELECTROMAGNETIC SURVEY NO Electromagnetic Techniques database survey number
      SURVEY NAME Name of survey
      ELECT TECHNQ TYPE CODE Geophysical technique type
      SURVEY START DATE Start date of survey
      SURVEY END DATE End date of survey
      COLLECTED BY1 Company that collected the data
      COLLECTED BY2 Company that collected the data (more than 1 company)
      COLLECTED BY3 Company that collected the data (more than 2 companies)
      ORIGINATOR Group responsible for the archived data
      PROCESSING DATE Date the data was processed
      PROCESSING COMPANY Company that processed the data
      SADME_REF SADME reference
      TENEMENT Exploration tenement type and number
      SURVEY NOTES Notes regarding the survey
      SURVEY LINE NO Survey line number
      SURVEY STATION NO Survey station number
      SITE NO Unique site number
      Easting MGA Easting
      Northing MGA Northing
      Zone MGA Zone
      LONGITUDE Longitude
      LATITUDE Latitude
      FREQ Frequency band
      PERIOD Period range
      PLOT PERIOD GROUP Displayed period ranges
      ALPHA Direction of the major axis
      BETA Skew angle
      MAX PHASE Maximum phase value
      MIN PHASE Minimum phase value
      PHI MAX Longest axis of the ellipsoid
      PHI MIN Shortest axis of the ellipsoid
      AZIMUTH Horizontal angle