Thèse soutenue

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Auteur / Autrice : Foteini Vervelidou
Direction : Gauthier HulotErwan Thébault
Type : Thèse de doctorat
Discipline(s) : Géophysique
Date : Soutenance en 2013
Etablissement(s) : Paris 7

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The Earth' s magnetic field results from the superposition of various sources, one of which consists of the magnetized minerais of the Earth's lithosphere. They contribute between 1% to 2% to the total magnetic field at the Earth's surface. Here, we focus on the study of this contribution and the difficulties related to the isolation of this contribution with precision. Firstly, we study different magnetic satellite data processing techniques and we propose a set of satellite data that we find to better describe the regional scales of the lithospheric signal. We choose as a case study the southern part of the African continent and with the aid of the regional modelling technique Revised-Spherical Cap Harmonic Analysis (R-SCHA), we join this satellite data set together with aeromagnetic and surface data and we obtain a lithospheric field model of this region that contains ail wavelengths between 2500 km down to 30 km approximately. We then focus on its characteristics in the spectral domain. We present a new regional spectral tool that we developed based on the basis functions of the R-SCHA. We combine this spectrum based on our regional model with a new theoretical form expressed in terms of mean magnetization and mean magnetic thickness. This allows us to estimate the mean magnetic thickness and the mean magnetization over the southern African region. By means of a preliminary study, we show that this approach can be applied on a global scale in order to inform us about the spatial variations of the magnetic thickness with spatial scales larger than 2500 kilometres.