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The Tellus Airborne Geophysical Survey and Results The Tellus Airborne Geophysical Survey and Results Mike Young The Tellus Conference, Belfast, 17/18 October 2007 © Natural Environment Research Council © Natural Environment Research Council Geophysical surveying measures: • Natural magnetic field • Shallow electrical conductivity variations • Surface radioactivity • MAP surface and near-surface physical characteristics • MODEL subsurface geological structure We use the results for: Exploration for Earth resources • Shallow structural mapping • Basin interpretation • Geothermal sources Environment management • Natural baselines • Anthropogenic effects • Hydrogeology • Soil carbon and peat • Radon Geological Survey British Geological of Finland Survey Joint Airborne- geoscience Capability BGS-GTK geophysical survey aircraft Electromagnetic coil Gamma-ray detector Magnetometer © Natural Environment Research Council © Natural Environment Research Council Aircraft systems • Aircraft De Havilland Twin Otter • Crew Pilot, co-pilot, navigator, engineer • Navigation Visual + real-time differential GPS • Position recovery DGPS + digital video • Altimetry Radar and laser altimeter © Natural Environment Research Council © Natural Environment Research Council Specification Distance flown 81,000 km Flying speed ~ 210 km/h Flight direction 345 degrees Flying height 56 m rural 250 m urban Line spacing 200 m Sampling: - Magnetic 6 - 7 m - EM 15 - 17 m - Radiometric 60 - 70 m Airborne Geophysical Survey New imagery Magnetics Electrical conductivity Gamma radiation Magnetic field Geological mapping Structural mapping Regional geology and tectonics Basin studies Igneous rocks Magnetic intensity Improving quality of mapping Magnetics Platinum in Soils Magnetics Nickel Magnetics Total magnetic field Total magnetic field & soil nickel Lower Lough Erne Upper Lough Erne Dykes – outcrop scale Curraghinalt Cavanacaw Magnetic field Geological mapping Structural mapping Regional geology and tectonics Basin studies Electrical conductivity Geological mapping Characterising soils and glacial material Salinity Pollution plumes Dalradian – low conductivity Carboniferous Inlier Bounding Fault NEW CONDUCTOR Lack Inlier (Dalradian) Omagh Thrust Embayment – different lithology Electrical conductivity and gold occurrences in Co. Tyrone Curraghinalt Cavanacaw Coastal salinity – Magilligan strand Electrical conductivity – west of Strabane Possible plume? Gamma radiation Geological mapping Soil characterisation Radioactivity baseline Radon Hot rock geothermal Magnetics Electromagnetics Uranium gamma-ray Uranium soil geochemistry Gamma radiation - Ternary 151 ppm 0 Magnetic and gamma-ray anomalies Slieve Gullion Camlough Fault Newry Fault Felsic Ring Dyke Gabbro Magnetic Gamma-ray: Potassium-40 Slieve Gullion – from the southeast In-house radon estimation 5 Km grid – in-house records Multi-variate analysis All remaining data after deletion of bogs and editing of outliers (345 data points) 2000 Peat extent and thickness 1800 1600 1400 R2 = 0.6143 1200 1000 800 Tellus Total CPS Total Tellus 600 400 200 0 0.00 1.00 2.00 3.00 4.00 5.00 6.00 7.00 8.00 9.00 Peat Thickness in m ESTIMATE OF PEAT THICKNESS 100 90 80 70 y = 30.459x-0.5255 60 R2 = 0.8972 50 40 30 20 Countrate - Spectrometer Hand 10 0 0.00 1.00 2.00 3.00 4.00 5.00 6.00 Peat Thickness in m Sperrins Type Section:Airborne TC vs Peat Thickness 1400 1200 y = 1202.1e-1.3661x R2 = 0.8631 1000 800 600 400 Airborne Total cps Total Airborne 200 0 0.00 0.50 1.00 1.50 2.00 2.50 3.00 Peat Thickness in m Magnetics Electrical conductivity Gamma radiation With acknowledgements to: • BGS and GTK survey and processing teams led by David Beamish and Maija Kurimo • Interpretation by Chris van Dam, Baz Chacksfield, Adrian Walker, Don Appleton, David Jones, Barry Rawlins and Cathy Scheib © Natural Environment Research Council © Natural Environment Research Council.
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