This was on the Geo-Tectonics list but it seemed to me that
it would be worth asking whether anyone on the geophysics
list might drop a line to Kenan Akbayram with some advice.
Sheila Peacock,
list co-owner.
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Subject: Deep crustal research with geophysical methods
Date: Thu, 21 Mar 2013 01:06:38 -0700
From: kenan akbayram <[log in to unmask]>
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Hi everyone,
I am a postdoctoral researcher working in the Geological Survey of
Turkey (MTA). My general research area is regional geology. I do
field work too; mapping and collecting palaeontological, isotopic,
structural data at the same time. Recently I would like to learn
some geophysics and try to apply some applications to the surface geology.
My question is about the deep crustal research with geophysics.
I am trying to understand whetter the magnetotelluric or deep
seismic reflexion-refraction studies is reliable to understand
the upper-lower crust and moho boundaries. I would like to know your
ideas about these techniques, in my very first oppinion magnetotelluric
is a bit questionable because there are some examples in the literature
claiming that by using the magnetotelluric data they came up to some
wrong interpretations about the crustal thickness (eg discussion in
Şengör et al, 2008, about the crust under the Eastern Turkey High Plateau).
Can you offer any paper discussing the reliability of the magnetotelluric
on crustal research?
Thank you all,
Cheers,
Kenan Akbayram
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