Magnetic Survey of Taiwan and Its Preliminary Interpretations

Abstract

To achieve an improved over all under standing of the tectonics of Tai wan, an is land-wide magnetic survey, especially in the mostly inaccessible mountain ranges, was carried out from July 2003 to February 2004. In total, 6063 magnetic points were surveyed at an average spacing of 2 km. After data reductions, a new magnetic anomaly map of Taiwan was constructed. The map shows the range of magnetic anomalies mostly distributing between -400 to 400 nT. Anomalies in the southern part of Taiwan are much higher than those in the north whilst anomalies in the western plains area are higher than those of the mountain ranges.

Keywords

• Magnetic survey
• Magnetic anomaly
• Diurnal variation
• IGRF