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IUGG XXIV General Assembly July 2-13, 2007 Perugia, Italy<br />

(S) - <strong>IASPEI</strong> - International Association of Seismology and Physics of the Earth's<br />

Interior<br />

JSS014 Poster presentation 2316<br />

Shallow crustal geological signatures in electrical<br />

Prof. Kalyan Kumar Roy<br />

Dept. Geol.Sci.Jadavpur University,Kolkata.India Emeritus Scientist IAGA<br />

N, Sri Rama Murthy, Lakshi Kanta Das, Kajal Kumar Mukherjee<br />

Collinear dipole-dipole traversing across the Singhbhum shear zone,an Archean-Proterozoic contact,<br />

across the geological boundary of two Archaean granite bodies of different ages and chemical<br />

compositions, across a Proterozoic volcanic body and across an Archean iron ore basin clearly depict<br />

shallow crustal inhomogeneity upto two kms from the surface.Scintrex 10 kilowatt transmitter and IPR-8<br />

and 10 receivers were used to conduct this survey.8 to 10 amperes of current could be sent through the<br />

ground and upto 500microvolt potential could be measured in the potential dipole reliably.Both current<br />

and potential dipoles were of length 500 meters and dipole separation were varied from n=1 to 8.Global<br />

optimization tools,viz,Genetic Algorithm (GA) and Very Fast Simulated Annealing(VFSA) gave better<br />

convergence than convensional linearised least squares inversion,viz.,weighted ridge regression<br />

approach for 2D resistivity modeling. Singhbhum shear zone could be clearly demarcated between the<br />

Archean Singhbhum craton and the Proterozoic North Singhbhum Fold Belt. The depth extent of an iron<br />

ore body in the Archean Noamundi iron ore basin on the western side of the Singhbhum craton could be<br />

mapped.The contact of two separate granite bodies of different geological ages could be<br />

deciphered.Signature of a vocanic body also could be seen in the electrical conductivity models below<br />

the Proterozoic Dhanjori volcanic basin.Advent of global positioning system(GPS) and easily available<br />

long distance communication system(cell phones) improved significantly the practical feasibility of use of<br />

high power DC resistivity set up for shallow crustal studies where magnetotelluric method fails because<br />

of very high cultural noise.<br />

Keywords: electricalconductivity, precambrians, singhbhum

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