The Palaeoproterozoic Lapland Granulite Belt is a seismically reflective and electrically conductive sequence of deep crustal (6–9 kbar) rocks in the northern Fennoscandian Shield. It is composed of garnet‐sillimanite gneisses (khondalites) and pyroxene granulites (enderbites) which in certain thrust sheets form about 500 m thick interlayers. The structure was formed by the intrusion of intermediate to basic magmas into turbiditic sedimentary rocks under granulite facies metamorphism accompanied by shearing of the deep crust about 1.93–1.90 Gyr ago (Gal. Granulites were upthrust 1.90–1.87 Ga and the belt was divided by crustal scale duplexing into four structural units whose layered structure was preserved. The thrust structures are recognized by the repetition of lithological ensembles and by discordant structural patterns well distinguishable in airborne magnetic and electromagnetic data. Thrusting gave rise to clockwise pressure‐temperature evolution of the belt. However, some basic rocks possibly record an isobaric cooling path. The low bulk resistivity of the belt (200–1000 Ωm) is caused by interconnected graphite and subordinate sulphides in shear zones. On the basis of carbon isotope ratios this graphite is derived mostly from sedimentary organic carbon. The seismic reflectivity of the belt may be caused by velocity and density differences between pyroxene granulites and khondalites, as well as by shear zones.

KAROUS, M. and PERNU, T.K. 1984, Combined Sounding-Profiling Resistivity Measurements with the Three-Electrode Arrays, Geophysical Prospecting 33,447-459.A combination of DC-resistivity sounding and profiling measurements can be used to obtain the maximum information about distribution of resistivities in the earth. Combined sounding-profiling measurements with the AMN, MNB arrays are considered. The resistivity data from such measurements can be presented as: (a) normal sounding curves, (b) combined sounding-profiling curves, (c) profiling curves, (d) pseudo-sections, or as transformations obtained by the so-called gradient processing, to emphasize the influence of the target objects.The examples chosen from numerical modeling and field tests show the efticiency of measurements with three-electrode arrays to accurately locate thin conductors and contacts of lithological units of different resistivities. An interpreted cross-section is compared with the results of other geophysical measurements (VLF-R, dipole EM, AZ, IP) showing good correlation.

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Magneto‐telluric experiments were performed in August 1974 in the Muhos Jotnian sedimentary formation and the Koillismaa Precambrian basement complex by the Centre de Recherches Géophysiques, Garchy, and the Department of Geophysics, University of Oulu, employing the “Résistivimètre magnéto‐tellurique”, an instrument which permits apparent resistivity values to be observed at eight pre‐selected frequencies between 8–1700 Hz. Preliminary soundings were made on the Muhos formation and on its surroundings, after which a magneto‐telluric profile was measured involving eleven sites on a line 13 km long extending across the formation. Some further soundings were made at certain sites of known stratigraphy. The resistivity values in the sedimentary formation were found to vary between 10 ωm and 200 ωm, while those in the basement were markedly higher. This resistivity contrast suggests that the method seems to be suitable for delimiting the sedimentary formation. Soundings made on the basement at Koillismaa show apparent resistivity values in the range 1000–20000 ωm. The interpretation of these soundings was in agreement with other, independently obtained geophysical results.

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