BC87 Page
The BC87 dataset consists of magnetotelluric data from twenty-seven sites along a 150 km profile across resistive terrains in southeastern British Columbia. These data are skewed, sheared, shifted and twisted, and require our most advanced processing tools to sort them out prior to two-dimensional modelling. However, even after galvanic distortion removal three-dimensional effects are apparent in the data at some sites for certain period bands.
The data are stored in both J-format and EDI format
The data were used for examination at the first and second MT data interpretation workshops MT-DIW1 and MT-DIW2.
If you use these data in a publication, please inform me so that I can add it to the list below.
Download BC87 data in EDI format (zip compressed ASCII file: 381Kb)
Download BC87 data in J-format (zip compressed tar file: 182Kb)
Published papers using BC87 dataset
- Jones, A.G., Kurtz, R.D., Oldenburg, D.W., Boerner, D.E. and Ellis, R., 1988.
Magnetotelluric observations along the LITHOPROBE southeastern Canadian Cordilleran transect.
Geophys. Res. Lett., 15, 677-680. (PDF) - Jones, A.G., 1993
The BC87 dataset: data and tectonic setting.
J. Geomagn. Geoelectr., 45, 1089-1105. (PDF) - Eisel, M. and Bahr, K., 1993
Electrical anisotropy in the lower crust of British Columbia: an interpretation of a magnetotelluric profile after tensor decomposition.
J. Geomagn. Geoelectr., 45, 1115-1126. - Lilley, F.E.M., 1993
Three-dimensionality of the BC87 magnetotelluric data set studied using Mohr circles.
J. Geomagn. Geoelectr., 45, 1107-1113. - Jones, A.G., Groom, R.W. and Kurtz, R.D., 1993
Decomposition and modelling of the BC87 dataset.
J. Geomagn. Geoelectr., 45, 1127-1150. (PDF) - deGroot-Hedlin, C., 1995
Inversion for regional 2-D resistivity structure in the presence of galvanic scatterers
Geophys. J. Int., 122, 877-888. - Chave, A.D. and Jones, A.G., 1997.
Electric and magnetic field distortion decomposition of BC87 data.
J. Geomagn. Geoelectr., 49, 767-789. (PDF) - Ritter, P. and Ritter, O., 1997.
The BC87 Dataset: Application of Hypothetical Event Analysis on distorted GDS response functions and some thin sheet modelling studies of the deep crustal conductor.
J. Geomagn. Geoelectr., 49, 757-766. - 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) - Gomez-Trevino, E., F.J. Esparza Hernandez, and J.M. Romo Jones, 2013.
Effect of galvanic distortions on the series and parallel magnetotelluric impedances and comparison with other responses.
Geofisica Internacional, 52, 135-152. - Gomez-Trevino, E., R. Antonio-Carpio, J.M. Romo, and F.J. Esparza, 2013.
A recursive set of invariants of the magnetotelluric impedance tensor.
Acta Geodetica Geophysica, 48, 265-274.