Magnetotelluric fieldwork adventures in Africa

The magnetotelluric (MT)method is away of probing the electrical resistivity (or its inverse, electrical conductivity) distribution of the subsurface. It is based on the principle of electromagnetic induction, in which natural magnetic field sources external to the Earth induce eddy currents within...

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