Marine electromagnetic research |
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| Authors: | L K Law |
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| Institution: | 1. Dept. Energy, Mines and Resources, Pacific Geoscience Centre, Sidney, B. C., Canada
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| Abstract: | All aspects of Marine Electromagnetic Research have made important advances over the last few years: theoretical studies, instrument design and data from equipment on the bottom of the ocean. The seafloor results show that the depth to the conducting asthenosphere is greater under older lithosphere and thus the thickness of the lithosphere increases with age. To obtain greater resolution of the electrical conductivity structure of the upper layers, several controlled source systems were developed. The first observations indicate a decrease in conductivity a few kilometers below the seafloor. Improved theoretical response curves for the electromagnetic fields at an ocean-continent boundary are now available. The theoretical curves, combined with land and seafloor data from coastal regions, allow the effects of the electric currents induced in the seawater to be separated from those caused by currents in the tectonic structure at the continental margin. Of growing interest is the application of electromagnetic methods to determine oceanographic wave parameters. Recent studies have investigated meanders in ocean current patterns, the response of internal edge waves and the tidal effect. With the forseeable improvements in seafloor instrumentation it will be possible to investigate the conductivity structure of offshore basins and the hydrothermal deposits associated with spreading ridges. |
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