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Upper Mantle Lateral Heterogeneities and Magnetotelluric Daily Variation Data

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Electrical Properties of the Earth’s Mantle

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We use telluric and magnetic data of the diurnal variation recorded in Europe, Australia and North America to study the magnetotelluric tensor in the 6h-24h period range. We use associate directions and we eliminate the effects of deviation of telluric currents. We thus obtain for each observatory reliable phases and apparent resistivity values representative of the neighbouring stratified substratum. It appears that the values obtained in the four European observatories (Saint-Maur, France; Ebro, Spain; Toledo, Spain; Nagycenk, Hungary) give similar results and that these results are different from those obtained either in Tucson (USA) or in Watheroo (Australia).

Using Bostick transform we Interpret thesc phase and apparent resistivity values in terms of conduc-tivity of the Upper mantle. We discuss then the conductivity heterogeneities in terms of change either in temperature, or partial melting or percentage of fluids of the upper mantle: at depths of about 300 km, the upper mantle appears to be 100 C hotter under Australia than under Europe; the probable presence of fluids at depths about 100 km in the southwesiern North America upper mantle appears to be responsible for the high observed conductivities. All these conductivity values arc cohercnt with tomography results from Woodhouse and Dziewonsky: high (low) conductivities are coherent with low (high)seismic wave velocities.

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Counil, J.L., Menvielle, M., Le Mouel, J.L. (1987). Upper Mantle Lateral Heterogeneities and Magnetotelluric Daily Variation Data. In: Campbell, W.H. (eds) Electrical Properties of the Earth’s Mantle. Pageoph Topical Volumes. Birkhäuser Basel. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-0348-7373-4_7

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