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RADIOMETRIC STUDIES OF MAGNETIC ANOMALIES IN THE MIDDLE TIMAN
A.Sh. Magomedova V.V. Udoratin Yu.E. Ezimova
Yushkin Institute of Geology of Komi Science Centre of the Ural Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences
Journal: Geophysical research
Tome: 25
Number: 1
Year: 2024
Pages: 5-27
UDK: 550.835.24; 550.389.1
DOI: 10.21455/gr2024.1-1
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Keywords: Middle Timan, Vol’sko-Vymskoe uplift, Chetlasskoe uplift, magnetic anomalies, kimberlite pipes, radon survey, volumetric radon activity
Аnnotation: The article presents results of an express radon survey on the territory of the Timan Ridge. The objects of study were kimberlite pipes and local anomalies of the Middle Timan similar to them in the magnetic field. In the course of the study, maps of the magnetic field of various scales were used, where the identification and sorting out of magnetic anomalies similar to the tube-type bodies were carried out. Magnetic anomalies were distin-guished by such qualitative characteristics as location, shape, size, sign, intensity, gradient. Magnetometric and radon surveys were carried out to study the explosion pipes and magnetic anomalies. Magnetometric observa-tions were performed along a network of profiles in order to detect and determine the contour of the anomaly. The method of radiometric studies consisted of crossing the magnetic anomaly with a profile passing through three observation points – center, edge, behind the contour. Radiometric measurements were conducted within the Umbinskaya, Srednenskaya, Vodorazdelnaya and the Verkhnemezenskaya series of explosion pipes as a result of which increased values of volumetric radon activity (VRA) were detected above the pipes. Thus, radon survey can be used as an additional search criterion included in the complex of geophysical works. During the zoning of the magnetic field according to morphology, sections were identified on various tec-tonic structures of the Middle Timan, within which radiometric studies of 68 magnetic anomalies were carried out. Moreover, 23 of the considered anomalies were characterized by increased VRA values. These anomalies, in turn, were divided into two promising categories that are of interest for further study. The first category includes anomalies with VRA values of more than 1000 Bq/m3, the second category includes anomalies with VRA values from 450 to 1000 Bq/m3. This scatter of VRA values is associated, first of all, with the geological and tectonic position of the structure. The identified promising anomalies are very close in morphology to the pipe type, and geologically they can be caused by small intrusive bodies or explosion pipes. However, not only explosion pipes can be character-ized by the high VRA values, but also individual magnetic anomalies, which correspond to dikes and rocks of basic, ultrabasic, alkaline composition, as well as rocks enriched in radioelements. When setting tasks for studying magnetic anomalies in order to search for explosion pipes, first of all, it is necessary to sort out such anomalies according to their location in the studied tectonic structures, shape, and intensity.
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