Magnetotelluric and Transient Electromagnetic data from Afar, Ethiopia (NERC Grant NE/E007147/1)
This data set comprises broadband magnetotelluric (MT) and transient electromagnetic (TEM) data collected during three field seasons in 2008, 2009 and 2010 by a team of researchers from the University of Edinburgh, UK, IMAGIR, Brest, France and the Institute for Geophysics, Space Science and Astronomy at Addis Ababa University, Ethiopia. The MT dataset includes the original time series and processed transfer functions. The time series data are provided in the original raw data format with files to convert them to ascii. Raw and processed TEM data, collected with a Geonics PROTEM system, are included. We provide information on the locations and the processing and include the necessary instrument response functions and metadata to reproduce our results from the raw data.
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- English (en)
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- 2021-01-22
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Rift zone
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Rift faults
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Magnetotelluric surveys
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NERC_DDC
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The copyright of materials derived from the British Geological Survey's work is vested in the Natural Environment Research Council [NERC]. No part of this work may be reproduced or transmitted in any form or by any means, or stored in a retrieval system of any nature, without the prior permission of the copyright holder, via the BGS Intellectual Property Rights Manager. Use by customers of information provided by the BGS, is at the customer's own risk. In view of the disparate sources of information at BGS's disposal, including such material donated to BGS, that BGS accepts in good faith as being accurate, the Natural Environment Research Council (NERC) gives no warranty, expressed or implied, as to the quality or accuracy of the information supplied, or to the information's suitability for any use. NERC/BGS accepts no liability whatever in respect of loss, damage, injury or other occurence however caused.
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Available under the Open Government Licence subject to the following acknowledgement accompanying the reproduced NERC materials "Contains NERC materials ©NERC [year]"
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Afar Rift [id=985003]
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- 1979
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- 2009
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ETH
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- 2009
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ETHIOPIA [id=692000]
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- 1979
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- 2008-01-01
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- 2010-03-31
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MT timeseries: original raw binary in system specific format (SPAM Mk III and SPAM Mk IV) with files to convert to ascii
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Transfer functions: plain text
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TEM data: plain text
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Report
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- 2011
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See the referenced specification
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Report
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- 2010-12-08
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See http://eur-lex.europa.eu/LexUriServ/LexUriServ.do?uri=OJ:L:2010:323:0011:0102:EN:PDF
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Magnetotelluric (MT) and Transient electromagnetic (TEM) data. The following associated publications may have more lineage details: Johnson, N. E., Whaler, K. A., Hautot, S., Fisseha, S., Desissa, M., & Dawes, G. J. K. (2015). Magma imaged magnetotellurically beneath an active and an inactive magmatic segment in Afar, Ethiopia. In T. Wright, A. Ayele, D. Ferguson, T. Kidane, & C. Vye-Brown (Eds.), Magmatic rifting and active volcanism (Vol. 420, pp. 105–125). Geological Society, London, Special Publications. Desissa, M, Johnson, N E, Whaler, K A et al., 2013. A mantle magma reservoir beneath an incipient mid-ocean ridge in Afar, Ethiopia, Nature Geoscience, 6, 861-865, doi: 10.1038/ngeo1925 Medynski, S, Pik, R, Burnard, P, Vye-Brown, C, France, L, Schimmelpfennig, I, Whaler, K, Johnson, N, Benedetti, L, Ayelew, D and Yirgu, G, 2015, Stability of rift axis magma reservoirs: spatial and temporal evolution of magma supply in the Dabbahu rift segment (Afar, Ethiopia) over the past 30 kyr, Earth Planet. Sci. Lett., 409, 278-289, doi: 10.1016/j.epsl.2014.11.002 Ebinger, C J, Keir, D, Bastow, I D, Whaler, K A, Hammond, J O S, Ayele, A, Miller, M S, Tiberi, C and Hautot, S, 2017. Crustal structure of active deformation zones in Africa: Implications for global crustal processes, Tectonics, 36, 3298–3332, doi: 10.1002/2017TC004526
Metadata
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- ba5a64cb-e005-5cf5-e054-002128a47908 XML
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- English (en)
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- dataset
- Metadata Date
- 2023-05-24
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- UK GEMINI
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2.3
British Geological Survey
Environmental Science Centre,Keyworth
,NOTTINGHAM
,NOTTINGHAMSHIRE
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,United Kingdom