Collaborators.....

• Dr. Alan Chave, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution
• Dr. Xavier Garcia, Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies
• Mr. Gary McNeice, Phoenix Geophysics

Activities.....

Published Papers on or using decomposition

• Jones, A.G. and Groom, R.W., 1993.
  Strike angle determination from the magnetotelluric tensor in the presence of noise and local distortion: rotate at your peril!
  Geophysical Journal International, 113, 524-534.
• Jones, A.G., Craven, J.A., McNeice, G.A., Ferguson, I.J., Boyce, T., Farquarson, C. and Ellis, R.G.1993.
  The North American Central Plains conductivity anomaly within the Trans-Hudson orogen in northern Saskatchewan.
  Geology, 21, 1027-1030.
• Jones, A.G., Groom, R.W. and Kurtz, R.D., 1993
  Decomposition and modelling of the BC87 dataset.
  Journal of Geomagnetism and Geoelectricity, 45, 1127-1150.
• Groom, R.W., Kurtz, R.D., Jones, A.G. and Boerner, D.E., 1993.
  A quantitative methodology for determining the dimensionality of conductivity structure and the extraction of regional impedance responses from magnetotelluric data.
  Geophysical Journal International, 115, 1095-1118.
• Jones, A.G. and Dumas, I., 1993.
  Electromagnetic images of a volcanic zone.
  Tectonophysics, 81, 289-314.
  • PDF full text (2.1 Mb: B/W only)
• Marquis, G., Jones, A.G. and Hyndman, R.D., 1995.
  Coincident conductive and reflective lower crust across a thermal boundary in southern British Columbia, Canada.
  Geophysical Journal International, 120, 111-131.
• Chave, A.D. and Jones, A.G., 1995.
  Electric and magnetic field distortion decomposition of BC87 data.
  Journal of Geomagnetism and Geoelectricity, 49, 767-789.
• Ogawa, Y., Jones, A.G., Unsworth, M.J., Booker, J.R., Lu, X., Craven, J., Roberts, B., Parmelee, J., and Farquharson, C., 1996.
  Electrical conductivity structures of the Appalachian orogen.
  Geophysical Research Letters, 23, 1597-1600.
  • PDF full text (WARNING: 12.5 Mb)
• 72: Ferguson, I.J., A.G. Jones, Y. Sheng, X. Wu and I. Shiozaki, 1999.
  Geoelectric response and crustal electrical-conductivity structure of the Flin Flon Belt, Trans-Hudson Orogen, Canada
  Canadian Journal of Earth Sciences, 36, 1917-1938.
  • PDF full text (1.1 Mb)
• 73: McNeice, G.W. and A.G. Jones, 2001
  Multi-site, multi-frequency tensor decomposition of magnetotelluric data
  Geophysics, 66, 158-173.
  • PDF full text (1.1 Mb)
• 77: Garcia, X. and A.G. Jones, 2002.
  Extended decomposition of MT data
  In: Three-Dimensional Electromagnetics, edited by M.S. Zhdanov and P.E. Wannamaker, publ. by Elsevier, Methods in Geochemistry and Geophysics (ISBN 0 444 50429 X), 35, 235-250.
• 79: Ledo, J. and A.G. Jones, 2001.
  Regional electrical conductivity structure of the southern Canadian Cordillera and its physical interpretation.
  Journal of Geophysical Research, 106 , 30,755-30,770.
  • PDF full text (WARNING: 5.5 Mb)
• 80: Ledo, J., A.G. Jones and I.J. Ferguson, 2002.
  Electromagnetic images of a strike-slip fault: The Tintina fault zone, northern Canadian cordillera.
  Geophysical Research Letters, 29 (8), doi: 10.1029/2001GL013408.
  • PDF full text (444 Kb)
• 82: Wu, X., I.J. Ferguson and A.G. Jones, 2002.
  Magnetotelluric response and geoelectric structure of the Great Slave Lake shear zone.
  Earth and Planetary Science Letters, 196, 35-50.
  • PDF full text (1 Mb)
• 83: Ledo, J., P. Queralt, A. Marti and A.G. Jones, 2002.
  Two dimensional interpretation of 3-D magnetotelluric data: an example of limitations and resolution.
  Geophysical Journal International 150, 127-139.
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• 91: Ledo, J., A.G. Jones, I.J. Ferguson and L. Wolynec, 2004.
  Lithospheric structure of the Yukon, Northern Canadian Cordillera, obtained from magnetotelluric data
  Journal of Geophysical Research, 109, B04410-1 - B04410-15, doi: 10.1029/2003JB002516, 2004.
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• 95: Jones, A.G. and X. Garcia, 2005.
  Electrical resistivity structure of the Yellowknife River Fault Zone and surrounding region.
  Gold in the Yellowknife Greenstone Belt, Northwest Territories: Results of the EXTECH III Multidisciplinary Research Project, published by Geological Association of Canada, Mineral Deposits Division, Special Publication, Chapter 13, accepted, 13 May, 2004.
  • PDF preprint (with colour figures) (6.5 Mb)
  • PDF full text (no colour figures) (1.2 Mb)
• 97: Eaton, D.W., A.G. Jones and I.J. Ferguson, 2004.
  Lithospheric anisotropy structure inferred from collocated teleseismic and magnetotelluric observations: Great Slave Lake shear zone, northern Canada.
  Geophysical Research Letters, 31, L19614, doi:10.1029/2004GL020939.
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• 102: Jones, A.G., J. Ledo and I.J. Ferguson, 2005.
  Electromagnetic images of the Trans-Hudson orogen: The North American Central Plains anomaly revealed.
  Canadian Journal of Earth Sciences, 42, 457-478.
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• 103: Solon, K., A.G. Jones, K.D. Nelson, M.J. Unsworth, W. Wei, H. Tan, H., S. Jin, M.Deng, J.R. Booker, S. Li, P. Bedrosian, 2005.
  Structure of the crust in the vicinity of the Banggong-Nujiang suture central Tibet from INDEPTH magnetotelluric data
  Journal of Geophysical Research, 110, B10102, doi: 10.1029/2003JB002405.
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• 105: Mart�, A., P. Queralt1, A.G. Jones and J. Ledo, 2005.
  Improving Bahr's invariant parameters using the WAL approach
  Geophysical Journal International, 163, 38-41.
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• 109: Hamilton, M.P., A.G. Jones, R.L. Evans, S. Evans, C.J.S. Fourie, X. Garcia, A. Mountford, J.E. Spratt, and the SAMTEX Team, 2006.
  Electrical anisotropy of South African lithosphere compared with seismic anisotropy from shear-wave splitting analyses.
  Physics of the Earth and Planetary Interiors, recommended for acceptance, 6 March, 2006.

Published Reports on or using decomposition

• Jones, A.G. and N.J. Grant, 1997.
  Geoelectric strike directions for the 1992 THOT MT data.
  Presentation at THOT transect workshop, Saskatoon, May 1-2, 1997.
  Publ. in Lithoprobe Publication No. xx, pp. xx-xx.
  (For a copy of the Publication, contact the Lithoprobe Secretariate)

Published Abstracts on or using decomposition

• McNeice, G. and A.G. Jones, 1996.
  Multi-site, multi-frequency tensor decomposition of magnetotelluric data.
  Presentation at 66th SEG, Denver, Colorado, November 10-15, 1996.
  Expanded Abstracts, pp. xx-xx.
  

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