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Electromagnetic 3D tomography of the Elbrus volcanic center according to magnetotelluric and satellite data

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A geoelectric 3D model of the potentially active Elbrus volcano and its vicinities has been constructed using magnetotelluric data, which takes the volume model of the tectonic fragmentation field developed based on deciphering satellite photographs into account. An original method of searching for the correlation and determination of the character of the interrelation between the ground-based and satellite data has been used in this construction. The geoelectric 3D model constructed includes two conducting objects located at different depths. One of the objects, with a resistivity of 25–40 Ω m, located at depths of 0–10 km, is most intense at a depth of 5 km, where the object is quasi-isometric in shape and has a radius of 10 km along the 40–60 Ω m contour lines. Another object with a resistivity of 10–40 Ω m is located at a depth of ∼45 km, where its dimensions along the contour line for 40 Ω m are 35 and 15 km in latitude and longitude, respectively. The thickness of the conducting core is approximately 20 km. The upper and lower objects can be interpreted as a volcano magma chamber and a volcano parent chamber, respectively.

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  1. Geoelectromagnetic Research Center, Institute of Physics of the Earth, Troitsk, Moscow oblast, 142190, Russia

    V. V. Spichak, V. P. Borisova, E. B. Fainberg, A. A. Khalezov & A. G. Goidina

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Original Russian Text © V.V. Spichak, V.P. Borisova, E.B. Fainberg, A.A. Khalezov, A.G. Goidina, 2007, published in Vulkanologiya i Seismologiya, 2007, No. 1, pp. 58–73.

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Spichak, V.V., Borisova, V.P., Fainberg, E.B. et al. Electromagnetic 3D tomography of the Elbrus volcanic center according to magnetotelluric and satellite data. J. Volcanolog. Seismol. 1, 53–66 (2007). https://doi.org/10.1134/S0742046307010046

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