Author(s)

Lyubov Bakunovich, Mikhail Nilov, Nikolay Sharov, Boris Belashev

FGBUN FIC, Karelian Research Center of RAS, Institute of Geology, Petrozavodsk, Russia.

The geological structure of the White Sea area and the surrounding land areas has been well studied in the framework of individual case studies. There are a number of local models of the deep structure of the Earth’s crust available. We propose a uniform assessment of deep crustal bodies responsible for long-period (regional) magnetic anomalies and consider their correlation with surface structures. The aim of the study is to build a three-dimensional magnetic model of the Earth’s crust in the White Sea region using aeromagnetic data and modeling technologies of the Integro software package. The model is formed on the basis of a digital map of the anomalous magnetic field reduced to the pole. The sources of magnetic anomalies are considered to be located in the Earth’s crust. The 3D distribution of the relative magnetic susceptibility of rocks was obtained by solving the inverse problem of the magnetic survey. To separate the magnetic sources by frequency and depth, it was necessary to continue the magnetic field of the model upward and to calculate the TDR derivatives, which determine the lateral boundaries of the sources of positive magnetic field anomalies. 2D distributions of magnetic sources of the model for vertical and horizontal sections with depths of 10, 15 and 20 km are analyzed. The correlation between the surface and deep structures of magnetic sources of the Earth’s crust in the region is shown.

White Sea, Earth’s Crust, Anomalous Magnetic Field, Effective Magnetic Sus-ceptibility, 3D Model

Bakunovich, L. , Nilov, M. , Sharov, N. and Belashev, B. (2021) Magnetic Structure of the Earth’s Crust in the White Sea Region. International Journal of Geosciences, 12, 1007-1020. doi: 10.4236/ijg.2021.1211053.