Maule MT EDI data and resistivity model profile

The subduction zone of central Chile (36° S) has produced some of the world's largest earthquakes and significant volcanic eruptions. Understanding the fluid fluxes and structure of the subducting slab and over-riding plate can provide insight into the tectonic processes responsible for both seismicity and magmatism. Magnetotellurics (MT) is a geophysical method which is sensitive to conductive anomalies (e.g. partial melt and brines) in the subsurface. This dataset includes MT EDI data files for 38 sites collected along a profile in central Chile and western Argentina in 2016 and 2017. It includes 19 long period (10 s to 10000 s) MT stations and 19 broadband (0.001 s to 1000 s) MT stations. Four of the broadband MT sites were collected by Alterra Power Corp (now Innergex Renewable Energy Inc.) labelled MU-002, MU-003, MU-011, and MU-019 (Hickson et al., 2011). Four of the long period sites in Argentina are taken from Burd et al. (2014). This dataset also includes two geo-referenced 2-D resistivity models and the inversion parameters used to produce the model. The nonlinear conjugate gradient algorithm of Rodi and Mackie (2001) was used to produce this model. The first is the unconstrained case where no slab tear was imposed (MODEL_UNCONSTRAINED). In this folder is the geo-referenced model (longitude, latitude, depth (km b.s.l.), resistivity) as well as a folder containing the inversion input files. The second is the constrained case where a slab tear was imposed (MODEL_CONSTRAINED). This also includes a geo-referenced model (longitude latitude depth resistivity) text file and a folder containing the inversion input files.

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Cordell, Darcy, Unsworth, Martyn J, Diaz, Daniel, Reyes-Wagner, Valentina, Currie, Claire A, Hicks, Stephen P (2019). Dataset: Maule MT EDI data and resistivity model profile. https://doi.org/10.1594/PANGAEA.899725

DOI retrieved: 2019

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Imported on November 29, 2024
Last update November 29, 2024
License CC-BY-4.0
Source https://doi.org/10.1594/PANGAEA.899725
Author Cordell, Darcy
Given Name Darcy
Family Name Cordell
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Unsworth, Martyn J
Diaz, Daniel
Reyes-Wagner, Valentina
Currie, Claire A
Hicks, Stephen P
Source Creation 2019
Publication Year 2019
Subject Areas
Name: Chemistry

Name: Geophysics

Name: Lithosphere

Related Identifiers
Title: Fluid and Melt Pathways in the Central Chilean Subduction Zone Near the 2010 Maule Earthquake (35–36°S) as Inferred From Magnetotelluric Data
Identifier: https://doi.org/10.1029/2018GC008167
Type: DOI
Relation: IsSupplementTo
Year: 2019
Source: Geochemistry, Geophysics, Geosystems
Authors: Cordell Darcy , Unsworth Martyn J , Diaz Daniel , Reyes-Wagner Valentina , Currie Claire A , Hicks Stephen P .

Title: Three-dimensional electrical conductivity in the mantle beneath the Payún Matrú Volcanic Field in the Andean backarc of Argentina near 36.5°S: evidence for decapitation of a mantle plume by resurgent upper mantle shear during slab steepening
Identifier: https://doi.org/10.1093/gji/ggu145
Type: DOI
Relation: References
Year: 2014
Source: Geophysical Journal International
Authors: Burd A I , Booker J R , Mackie Randall L , Favetto A , Hickson C F , Ferraris F , Rodriquez C , Sielfeld G , Henriquez R , Gislason T , Selters J , Benoit D , White P , Southon J , Ussher G , Charroy J , Smith Andrew , Lovelock B , Lawless J , Quinlivan P , Smith L , Rodi William , Mackie Randall L .

Title: The Mariposa Geothermal System, Chile
Type: DOI
Relation: References
Year: 2011
Source: GRC Trans.
Authors: Burd A I , Booker J R , Mackie Randall L , Favetto A , Hickson C F , Ferraris F , Rodriquez C , Sielfeld G , Henriquez R , Gislason T , Selters J , Benoit D , White P , Southon J , Ussher G , Charroy J , Smith Andrew , Lovelock B , Lawless J , Quinlivan P , Smith L , Rodi William , Mackie Randall L .

Title: Nonlinear conjugate gradients algorithm for 2-D magnetotelluric inversion
Identifier: https://doi.org/10.1190/1.1444893
Type: DOI
Relation: References
Year: 2001
Source: Geophysics
Authors: Burd A I , Booker J R , Mackie Randall L , Favetto A , Hickson C F , Ferraris F , Rodriquez C , Sielfeld G , Henriquez R , Gislason T , Selters J , Benoit D , White P , Southon J , Ussher G , Charroy J , Smith Andrew , Lovelock B , Lawless J , Quinlivan P , Smith L , Rodi William , Mackie Randall L .