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magnetotellurics

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  • noun geography A natural-source, electromagnetic geophysical method of imaging structures below the earth's surface

Etymologies

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magnet- +‎ -o- + telluric

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  • In combination with other geophysical exploration technologies, the Petro-Sonde becomes a complimentary tool behind seismic, geo-chemical Satellite Imagery, magnetotellurics, radiometrics, and other methods.

    How To Get a Business Loan Joseph R. Mancuso 1990

  • In combination with other geophysical exploration technologies, the Petro-Sonde becomes a complimentary tool behind seismic, geo-chemical Satellite Imagery, magnetotellurics, radiometrics, and other methods.

    How To Get a Business Loan Joseph R. Mancuso 1990

  • In combination with other geophysical exploration technologies, the Petro-Sonde becomes a complimentary tool behind seismic, geo-chemical Satellite Imagery, magnetotellurics, radiometrics, and other methods.

    How To Get a Business Loan Joseph R. Mancuso 1990

  • In combination with other geophysical exploration technologies, the Petro-Sonde becomes a complimentary tool behind seismic, geo-chemical Satellite Imagery, magnetotellurics, radiometrics, and other methods.

    How To Get a Business Loan Joseph R. Mancuso 1990

  • We have spent the last several months studying data from a well we recently re-entered and from several additional surveys, including a magnetotellurics MT survey, which is an electromagnetic geophysical method used to image the Earth's subsurface.

    Raser Technologies Begins Drilling Its First Production Well at Its Lightning Dock, New Mexico Project - Yahoo! Finance 2011

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  • Magma can be detected with a technique called magnetotellurics, which builds up a picture of what lies underground by measuring fluctuations in electric and magnetic fields at the surface.

    New Scientist, 13 June 2009

    June 15, 2009

  • Look Papa, this one has all the vowels!

    January 29, 2010

  • Hmm, if we could just snip out the extra "e": magnotelluric. Which does appear online, but seems to be a misspelling.

    January 29, 2010