<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><!DOCTYPE article  PUBLIC "-//NLM//DTD Journal Publishing DTD v3.0 20080202//EN" "http://dtd.nlm.nih.gov/publishing/3.0/journalpublishing3.dtd"><article xmlns:mml="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink" dtd-version="3.0" xml:lang="en" article-type="research article"><front><journal-meta><journal-id journal-id-type="publisher-id">IJG</journal-id><journal-title-group><journal-title>International Journal of Geosciences</journal-title></journal-title-group><issn pub-type="epub">2156-8359</issn><publisher><publisher-name>Scientific Research Publishing</publisher-name></publisher></journal-meta><article-meta><article-id pub-id-type="doi">10.4236/ijg.2021.1211053</article-id><article-id pub-id-type="publisher-id">IJG-113123</article-id><article-categories><subj-group subj-group-type="heading"><subject>Articles</subject></subj-group><subj-group subj-group-type="Discipline-v2"><subject>Earth&amp;Environmental Sciences</subject></subj-group></article-categories><title-group><article-title>
 
 
  Magnetic Structure of the Earth’s Crust in the White Sea Region
 
</article-title></title-group><contrib-group><contrib contrib-type="author" xlink:type="simple"><name name-style="western"><surname>Lyubov</surname><given-names>Bakunovich</given-names></name><xref ref-type="aff" rid="aff1"><sup>1</sup></xref></contrib><contrib contrib-type="author" xlink:type="simple"><name name-style="western"><surname>Mikhail</surname><given-names>Nilov</given-names></name><xref ref-type="aff" rid="aff1"><sup>1</sup></xref></contrib><contrib contrib-type="author" xlink:type="simple"><name name-style="western"><surname>Nikolay</surname><given-names>Sharov</given-names></name><xref ref-type="aff" rid="aff1"><sup>1</sup></xref></contrib><contrib contrib-type="author" xlink:type="simple"><name name-style="western"><surname>Boris</surname><given-names>Belashev</given-names></name><xref ref-type="aff" rid="aff1"><sup>1</sup></xref></contrib></contrib-group><aff id="aff1"><addr-line>FGBUN FIC, Karelian Research Center of RAS, Institute of Geology, Petrozavodsk, Russia</addr-line></aff><pub-date pub-type="epub"><day>12</day><month>11</month><year>2021</year></pub-date><volume>12</volume><issue>11</issue><fpage>1007</fpage><lpage>1020</lpage><history><date date-type="received"><day>7,</day>	<month>September</month>	<year>2021</year></date><date date-type="rev-recd"><day>9,</day>	<month>November</month>	<year>2021</year>	</date><date date-type="accepted"><day>12,</day>	<month>November</month>	<year>2021</year></date></history><permissions><copyright-statement>&#169; Copyright  2014 by authors and Scientific Research Publishing Inc. </copyright-statement><copyright-year>2014</copyright-year><license><license-p>This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution International License (CC BY). http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/</license-p></license></permissions><abstract><p>
 
 
  The geological structure of the White Sea area and the surrounding land areas has been well studied in the framework of individual case studies. There are a number of local models of the deep structure of the Earth’s crust available. We propose a uniform assessment of deep crustal bodies responsible for long-period (regional) magnetic anomalies and consider their correlation with surface structures. The aim of the study is to build a three-dimensional magnetic model of the Earth’s crust in the White Sea region using aeromagnetic data and modeling technologies of the Integro software package. The model is formed on the basis of a digital map of the anomalous magnetic field reduced to the pole. The sources of magnetic anomalies are considered to be located in the Earth’s crust. The 3D distribution of the relative magnetic susceptibility of rocks was obtained by solving the inverse problem of 
  the 
  magnetic survey. To separate the magnetic sources by frequency and depth, it was necessary to continue the magnetic field of the model upward and to calculate the TDR derivatives, which determine the lateral boundaries of the sources of positive magnetic field anomalies. 2D distributions of magnetic sources of the model for vertical and horizontal sections with depths of 10, 15 and 20 km are analyzed. The correlation between the surface and deep structures of magnetic sources of the Earth’s crust in the region is shown.
 
</p></abstract><kwd-group><kwd>White Sea</kwd><kwd> Earth’s Crust</kwd><kwd> Anomalous Magnetic Field</kwd><kwd> Effective Magnetic Sus-ceptibility</kwd><kwd> 3D Model</kwd></kwd-group></article-meta></front><body><sec id="s1"><title>1. Introduction</title><p>The practical study of an anomalous magnetic field has shown that it contains a regional constituent, which can be used for the study of the deep structure of the earth’s crust. Methods for identifying mathematically interpreting regional magnetic anomalies (RMA) and understanding the genesis of their sources have been described by many authors [<xref ref-type="bibr" rid="scirp.113123-ref1">1</xref>] [<xref ref-type="bibr" rid="scirp.113123-ref2">2</xref>]. Anomalous magnetic field gradients contain evidence for the positions of magnetic sources. Vertical gradients are sensitive to the depth of occurrence of sources [<xref ref-type="bibr" rid="scirp.113123-ref3">3</xref>]. Obtaining anomalous magnetic field gradients from the sources located in the lower horizons of the earth’s crust, remains a complex problem, which has not been completely resolved [<xref ref-type="bibr" rid="scirp.113123-ref4">4</xref>]. Therefore, mathematical modelling remains an efficient and relatively cheap method for the structural study of the earth’s crust.</p><p>Magnetic models of the earth’s crust, based on the results of the areal aeromagnetic survey, establish a relationship between an anomalous magnetic field and rock magnetization. The scope of information obtained using such models is believed to be controlled by igneous rocks’ property to preserve information on the Earth’s magnetic field in magnetized state upon rock crystallization. Linking geomagnetic field states to time helps reconstruct the past states of the geomagnetic field, lithosphere and climate [<xref ref-type="bibr" rid="scirp.113123-ref5">5</xref>]. Such models are usually constructed for geodynamically active regions [<xref ref-type="bibr" rid="scirp.113123-ref6">6</xref>] [<xref ref-type="bibr" rid="scirp.113123-ref7">7</xref>] [<xref ref-type="bibr" rid="scirp.113123-ref8">8</xref>].</p><p>The White Sea basin and adjacent areas are at the conjugation zone of the uplifting Fennoscandian Shield and the Russian Plate is overlain by sedimentary strata. Interest in the region’s deep structure and geodynamics is due to its mineralogenic kimberlite magmatism, various useful mineral deposits and oil and gas prospecting [<xref ref-type="bibr" rid="scirp.113123-ref9">9</xref>].</p><p>The deep structure of some portions of the Fennoscandian Shield has been repeatedly studied [<xref ref-type="bibr" rid="scirp.113123-ref10">10</xref>] [<xref ref-type="bibr" rid="scirp.113123-ref11">11</xref>] [<xref ref-type="bibr" rid="scirp.113123-ref12">12</xref>] under national and international research projects [<xref ref-type="bibr" rid="scirp.113123-ref13">13</xref>].</p><p>The earth’s crust of the east-facing slope of the Fennoscandian Shield and the White Sea basin, Russia’s inland sea) has mainly been studied by Soviet and Russian scientists [<xref ref-type="bibr" rid="scirp.113123-ref14">14</xref>] [<xref ref-type="bibr" rid="scirp.113123-ref15">15</xref>] [<xref ref-type="bibr" rid="scirp.113123-ref16">16</xref>] [<xref ref-type="bibr" rid="scirp.113123-ref17">17</xref>] [<xref ref-type="bibr" rid="scirp.113123-ref18">18</xref>].</p><p>The formation of our knowledge of the deep crustal structure of the White Sea using aeromagnetic data has been described in [<xref ref-type="bibr" rid="scirp.113123-ref19">19</xref>], where an evolutionary model of the white Sea rift system, connecting the structural levels of a magnetically active layer with stages in the region’s tectonic activation from the Middle to the Late Riphean to the events that took place during the last glaciations in the Quaternary period.</p><p>Our knowledge of the division of the earth’s crust in the White Sea region into three basic arbitrary variably deep layers—“sedimentary”, granitic-metamorphic” and “granulitic-basic”—differing in density [<xref ref-type="bibr" rid="scirp.113123-ref14">14</xref>] [<xref ref-type="bibr" rid="scirp.113123-ref20">20</xref>], obtained by generalizing seismic data, can be used to estimate the depth of occurrence of the upper and lower margins of RМА sources. Scientists who study RМАs on the Fennoscandian and Ukrainian shields [<xref ref-type="bibr" rid="scirp.113123-ref21">21</xref>] think that the arbitrary “granitic” layer could be connected with local magnetic anomalies.</p><p>The construction of magnetic models is contributed to by computer technologies operating with large amounts of data, solving problems under uncertain conditions and presenting the results of studies in various ways [<xref ref-type="bibr" rid="scirp.113123-ref22">22</xref>].</p><p>A modern tool for mathematical modelling is provided by the Integro GIS Complex designed to approach various problems in earth sciences [<xref ref-type="bibr" rid="scirp.113123-ref23">23</xref>]. The complex solves direct and inverse geophysical problems automatically, provides the possibility to construct and analyze complex models, to take into account a priori information and to do complexing of methods.</p><p>The purpose of the present study is to construct a generalized 3D magnetic model of the earth’s crust of the White Sea and adjacent areas using the Integro Complex.</p></sec><sec id="s2"><title>2. Data and Methods</title><sec id="s2_1"><title>2.1. Initial Data and Provisions 3D Magnetic Model Was Constructed Using</title><p>• A scheme showing the region’s block structure;</p><p>• 1:1,000,000 scale digital maps of an anomalous magnetic field (ΔТ) [<xref ref-type="bibr" rid="scirp.113123-ref24">24</xref>] [<xref ref-type="bibr" rid="scirp.113123-ref25">25</xref>];</p><p>• A 3D density model of the region’s earth crust and a scheme of the depth of occurrence of M-discontinuity [<xref ref-type="bibr" rid="scirp.113123-ref26">26</xref>];</p><p>• A 1:1,000,000 scale state geological map of Russia and explanatory notes to sheets Q-35, 36, 37 and 38 [<xref ref-type="bibr" rid="scirp.113123-ref27">27</xref>];</p><p>• 1:1,000,000 scale petrophysical and metromagnetic maps of the eastern Fennoscandian Shield [<xref ref-type="bibr" rid="scirp.113123-ref28">28</xref>];</p><p>• A scheme of temperature distribution in the crustal sequence [<xref ref-type="bibr" rid="scirp.113123-ref29">29</xref>];</p><p>• Tectonic maps of the White Sea and adjacent areas [<xref ref-type="bibr" rid="scirp.113123-ref17">17</xref>] [<xref ref-type="bibr" rid="scirp.113123-ref30">30</xref>].</p><p><xref ref-type="fig" rid="fig1">Figure 1</xref> shows the geographical position of the region, the main elements of its structure and the location of the main tectonic lineaments of the earth’s crust the positions of the main regional faults of the Earth’s crust.</p><p><xref ref-type="fig" rid="fig2">Figure 2</xref> shows a diagram of the block structure of the region. The block designations are given in <xref ref-type="table" rid="table1">Table 1</xref>.</p><p>The basic aeromagnetic data for the White Sea region, obtained by 1:1,000,000 to 1:200,000 scale survey in 1958-1989, were transformed into a digital matrix with a 500 &#215; 500 m cell of the eastern portion of sheet Q-35 and sheets Q-36 - Q-38 in full format.</p><p>The total magnetic intensity matrix was reduced to the pole. The map compiled (<xref ref-type="fig" rid="fig3">Figure 3</xref>) is a superposition of the contributions of variably deep anomalies sources. Regional magnetic field anomalies are believed to control deep</p><table-wrap id="table1" ><label><xref ref-type="table" rid="table1">Table 1</xref></label><caption><title> Main Geoblocks of the white sea region</title></caption><table><tbody><thead><tr><th align="center" valign="middle" >Label</th><th align="center" valign="middle" >Terrain</th><th align="center" valign="middle" >Age (under discussion)</th></tr></thead><tr><td align="center" valign="middle" >CKa</td><td align="center" valign="middle" >Central Karelian terrain</td><td align="center" valign="middle" >Late Archaean</td></tr><tr><td align="center" valign="middle" >NKa</td><td align="center" valign="middle" >North Karelian terrain</td><td align="center" valign="middle" >Late Archaean</td></tr><tr><td align="center" valign="middle" >WS</td><td align="center" valign="middle" >White Sea terrain</td><td align="center" valign="middle" >Archaean</td></tr><tr><td align="center" valign="middle" >Kol</td><td align="center" valign="middle" >Kolvitskiy terrain</td><td align="center" valign="middle" >Archaean</td></tr><tr><td align="center" valign="middle" >SoK</td><td align="center" valign="middle" >South Kola terrain</td><td align="center" valign="middle" >Archaean</td></tr><tr><td align="center" valign="middle" >TeZ</td><td align="center" valign="middle" >Tersko-Zolotitskiy terrain</td><td align="center" valign="middle" >Archaean</td></tr><tr><td align="center" valign="middle" >ImV</td><td align="center" valign="middle" >Imandra-Varzugskiy terrain</td><td align="center" valign="middle" >Archaean</td></tr><tr><td align="center" valign="middle" >CKo</td><td align="center" valign="middle" >Central Kola terrain</td><td align="center" valign="middle" >Early Archaean</td></tr><tr><td align="center" valign="middle" >EKo</td><td align="center" valign="middle" >East Kola terrain</td><td align="center" valign="middle" >Early Archaean</td></tr><tr><td align="center" valign="middle" >Mur</td><td align="center" valign="middle" >Murmansk terrain</td><td align="center" valign="middle" >Early Archaean</td></tr><tr><td align="center" valign="middle" >WMe</td><td align="center" valign="middle" >West Mezen’ terrain</td><td align="center" valign="middle" >Palaeozoic</td></tr><tr><td align="center" valign="middle" >EMe</td><td align="center" valign="middle" >East Mezen’ terrain</td><td align="center" valign="middle" >Palaeozoic</td></tr><tr><td align="center" valign="middle" >TiK</td><td align="center" valign="middle" >Timano-Kaninskiy terrain</td><td align="center" valign="middle" >Palaeozoic</td></tr></tbody></table></table-wrap><p>crustal structures, while local anomalies are ascribed to sources in its upper stores.</p><p>When constructing magnetic models of the earth’s crust, selecting magnetic susceptibility values for rocks becomes a problem. In some models, workers use the table magnetic susceptibility values of known rocks or calculate them from rock density using regression equations. Equation coefficients are calculated for certain lithologic rock groups [<xref ref-type="bibr" rid="scirp.113123-ref32">32</xref>]. This method is used for relatively small compositionally homogeneous areas and drill hole records.</p><p>When solving an inverse magnetic prospecting problem for the White Sea region, which displays a mosaic structure, we oriented ourselves at relative magnetic susceptibility, an arbitrary value used in the model models of the Integro package, rather than the absolute magnetic susceptibility values of rocks [<xref ref-type="bibr" rid="scirp.113123-ref23">23</xref>].</p><p>The depth range of magnetic anomaly sources in the model was chosen using Curie’s isotherm depth estimate [<xref ref-type="bibr" rid="scirp.113123-ref6">6</xref>] [<xref ref-type="bibr" rid="scirp.113123-ref33">33</xref>] [<xref ref-type="bibr" rid="scirp.113123-ref34">34</xref>]. According to [<xref ref-type="bibr" rid="scirp.113123-ref29">29</xref>] [<xref ref-type="bibr" rid="scirp.113123-ref35">35</xref>] [<xref ref-type="bibr" rid="scirp.113123-ref36">36</xref>] the heat flow values 10 - 50 mWt/m<sup>2</sup> in the region are consistent with a cold lithosphere (<xref ref-type="fig" rid="fig4">Figure 4</xref>).</p><p>In accordance with known petromagnetic models of the earth’s crust [<xref ref-type="bibr" rid="scirp.113123-ref6">6</xref>] [<xref ref-type="bibr" rid="scirp.113123-ref34">34</xref>] [<xref ref-type="bibr" rid="scirp.113123-ref37">37</xref>] [<xref ref-type="bibr" rid="scirp.113123-ref38">38</xref>], we will consider the region’s mantle to be nonmagnetic and arrange magnetic anomaly sources in the earth’s crust, assuming M-discontinuity as the boundary of their lower margins.</p><p>A 3D density model was used to show heterogeneities in the region’s earth crust and to compare them with the structures of magnetic anomaly sources [<xref ref-type="bibr" rid="scirp.113123-ref26">26</xref>]. The model shows the boundaries of the density layers of the earth’s crust of the sedimentary, granitic-metamorphic, granulite-basic M-discontinuity (М-boundary or М-surface).</p></sec><sec id="s2_2"><title>2.2. Data Processing and Modelling Technologies</title><p>Stages in the construction and analysis of the 3D model using the Integro</p><p>complex comprised preparing a digital map of the region’s anomalous magnetic field, its reduction to the pole, solving an inverse magnetic prospecting problem, obtaining the vertical and horizontal sections of the model, recalculating a model anomalous magnetic field upwards, calculating recalculated field derivatives and laterally delineating the sources of positive anomalies in the horizontal sections of the model.</p><p>Inverse problems in the Integro package were solved on a 3D net using a regularization method [<xref ref-type="bibr" rid="scirp.113123-ref39">39</xref>] [<xref ref-type="bibr" rid="scirp.113123-ref40">40</xref>] and updated spectral algorithms based on Fourier’s rapid transformation [<xref ref-type="bibr" rid="scirp.113123-ref40">40</xref>] [<xref ref-type="bibr" rid="scirp.113123-ref41">41</xref>]. The net step of the model along the axes was 1 km. The algorithms used function rapidly and remove marginal effects arising because of lateral limits and lack of data periodicity.</p><p>The standard geophysical procedures of the Integro package were performed by reducing the anomalous magnetic field to the pole, recalculating the field up and down and calculating its derivatives [<xref ref-type="bibr" rid="scirp.113123-ref40">40</xref>]. The reduction of the magnetic field to the pole yields the magnetic field of the substance of the same magnetization directed vertically upwards, topography and the various directions of the orientation of rock magnetization. The upward extension of the magnetic field uses a different field variation rate from variably deep sources, yields the distribution patterns of sources differing in spatial frequencies and identifies a field constituent from the sources of horizontal layers with preset depths.</p><p>A combination of the derivatives of the model magnetic field recalculated upwards was used as a detector of the lateral boundaries of the sources. The role of a spatial filter was played by a vertical to horizontal field derivative ratio expressed as the arc tangent of an angle denoted as a TDR derivative or a TDR angle [<xref ref-type="bibr" rid="scirp.113123-ref42">42</xref>]. The TDR derivative is positive above the magnetic source, is close to zero near its boundaries and is negative where no source exists [<xref ref-type="bibr" rid="scirp.113123-ref8">8</xref>]. Similarly [<xref ref-type="bibr" rid="scirp.113123-ref8">8</xref>], the lateral boundaries of positive magnetic anomalies were obtained by placing the transparent windows of the positive TDR derivative on the horizontal sections of the 3D magnetic model.</p></sec></sec><sec id="s3"><title>3. Results</title><p><xref ref-type="fig" rid="fig5">Figure 5</xref> demonstrates the volume distribution of the relative magnetic susceptibility in the Earth’s crust of the White Sea region obtained by solving the inverse problem of magnetic survey.</p><p>In <xref ref-type="fig" rid="fig6">Figure 6</xref>, this distribution is represented by a set of vertical sections of the 3D magnetic model (a) and images of individual sections (b)-(i).</p><p><xref ref-type="fig" rid="fig5">Figure 5</xref> and <xref ref-type="fig" rid="fig6">Figure 6</xref> show that large magnetic sources are present at depths from 30 to 40 km, and in the northwest of the region at depths from 10 to 40 km. The regions of magnetization from sources in the southeast and northeast of the region rise upward, branch out in the northwest and northeast directions, disintegrating into smaller bodies. Small bodies are concentrated in the upper layer of the Earth’s crust with depths from 0 to 10 km. The northwestern source of high magnetization, located under the Murmansk block (see <xref ref-type="fig" rid="fig2">Figure 2</xref> and <xref ref-type="fig" rid="fig3">Figure 3</xref>), forms two branches at a depth of about 10 km, one of which almost reaches the Earth’s surface beneath the Khibiny massif.</p><p><xref ref-type="fig" rid="fig7">Figure 7</xref> shows the results of TDR filtering in horizontal sections of the model with depths of 10, 15 and 20 km.</p><p>Most of the positive sources of the section 10 km deep, extended in the northwest direction, trace the Onega-Kandalaksha, Keretsky and Mezensky grabens of the White Sea rift system (<xref ref-type="fig" rid="fig7">Figure 7</xref>(a)). The structures of the sources in the southwestern and central parts of the region are characterized by a northeastern run. As the sections become deeper, the structures of the sources become simpler; their bodies increase in size, and disintegrate. In the section 15 km deep, the Onega and Kandalaksha rifts are presented separately (<xref ref-type="fig" rid="fig7">Figure 7</xref>(b)). The</p><p>Keretsk rift looks like a coherent structure, but it also disintegrates in a section 20 km deep (<xref ref-type="fig" rid="fig7">Figure 7</xref>(c)).</p><p>In the White Sea Throat, on the Zimneberezhny Uplift, and on the Onega Peninsula, the closures of magnetic sources form ring structures. With an increase in the depth of the section, the rings of the structures expand, and the closures are precluded.</p><p>Overlay of horizontal sections with transparent windows of positive TDR filters indicates the proximity of the lateral projections of the corresponding sources at different depths (<xref ref-type="fig" rid="fig7">Figure 7</xref>).</p></sec><sec id="s4"><title>4. Discussion</title><p>Comparison of the block diagram of the region (see <xref ref-type="fig" rid="fig2">Figure 2</xref>) and the map of the anomalous magnetic field (see <xref ref-type="fig" rid="fig3">Figure 3</xref>) shows that the boundaries of positive and negative magnetic field anomalies trace the boundaries of lithospheric blocks.</p><p>The distribution of magnetic anomaly sources in the volume of the Earth’s crust, shown in <xref ref-type="fig" rid="fig5">Figure 5</xref> and <xref ref-type="fig" rid="fig6">Figure 6</xref>, confirms that relatively small sources determining local magnetic field anomalies should be assigned to the upper levels of the Earth’s crust, and larger sources of regional anomalies, to its middle and lower levels. The magnetization pattern of the Earth’s crust is not chaotic. The model identified the regions of large sources magnetization in the lower crust: they extend upward, forming branched structures that permeate the entire Earth’s crust. In the upper crust, the branches of magnetization flatten out and finally acquire a northwestern and northeastern run in accordance with the inclination of the Earth’s crust set by the M-surface [<xref ref-type="bibr" rid="scirp.113123-ref26">26</xref>].</p><p>The fact that the sources located in a layer of the Earth’s crust which is 10 - 20 km deep are associated with vertical structures is confirmed by the proximity of their lateral projection centers of the horizontal sections of the model (see <xref ref-type="fig" rid="fig6">Figure 6</xref>).</p><p>The distribution of magnetic sources in depth is consistent with the concept of the evolution of the White Sea paleorift system during the tectonic activation of the region. This process is associated with Riphean-Vendian basic volcanism and Middle Paleozoic (Late Devonian) alkaline-ultrabasic magmatism [<xref ref-type="bibr" rid="scirp.113123-ref19">19</xref>]. Subvertical crustal magnetization structures indicate the activity of the White Sea suture zone, which is a magma and fluid supply channel with the mantle. The intense regions of magnetization of such structures at medium depths indicate the staging of magmatism.</p><p>The structures of magnetic sources of the northwestern run of the upper and middle crust trace the main riftogenic grabens of the White Sea. By overlaying the sources of structures of northeasterly striking, they cause closure of magnetic bodies and form rings (see <xref ref-type="fig" rid="fig5">Figure 5</xref>). The occurence of rings is expected in tectonic nodes and in places where the directions of the main faults change. The crust of ring structures is the most disturbed and most permeable. The upper levels of the rings in the region are associated with manifestations of kimberlite magmatism and with the fields of chimney deposits.</p><p>At the point where the White Sea Throat enters the funnel three riftogenic structures of the region are linked. A feature of the ring structure revealed herein by the 3D magnetic and density models [<xref ref-type="bibr" rid="scirp.113123-ref26">26</xref>] is the depression of the M-boundary surrounded by local uplifts.</p><p>This topology is considered a criterion for diamond potential [<xref ref-type="bibr" rid="scirp.113123-ref43">43</xref>]. The Zimneberezhny ring structure is located on an ancient ledge of the crystalline basement. The diamondiferous kimberlite field is located in the Riphean aulacogen of northwestern run in the conjugation zone of the Kola craton and the Mezen syneclise. The promising Nenoksa field of the development of olivine melilitites chimney deposits is associated with the Onega Peninsula ring structure [<xref ref-type="bibr" rid="scirp.113123-ref19">19</xref>].</p><p>As for the nature of the sources of intense high-frequency magnetic anomalies in the uppermost parts of the Earth’s crust, it should be noted that these sources could be intrusions of the basic composition, fluvioglacial deposits of the Late Pleistocene-Holocene—moraines. In the middle and lower levels of the Earth’s crust, weakly magnetic rocks predominate. Rocks of high magnetic susceptibility are attributed to the areas of ferruginous fluids intrusion, concentration of ferruginous volcanics, intrusive differentiates and products of their processing. Such areas are associated with the cores of the most ancient consolidation of the crust, processed cores, suture zones, charnockite-granulite belts [<xref ref-type="bibr" rid="scirp.113123-ref44">44</xref>]. The main carrier of the magnetization of rocks is magnetite.</p></sec><sec id="s5"><title>5. Conclusions</title><p>A 3D magnetic model of the White Sea crust and adjacent territories was developed on the basis of aeromagnetic survey data, geological and geophysical maps, diagrams and materials, a seismic density model of the White Sea crust. The model was built using the technologies of the Integro software package.</p><p>The model contrastively represents the block structure of the region and magnetic bodies in the volume of the Earth’s crust. It allows assessing the positions, sizes, magnetization of these bodies and assigns the sources of local and regional anomalies to the upper, middle and lower levels of the Earth’s crust. The localization and visualization of magnetic bodies and structures are facilitated by the sections of the 3D magnetic model.</p><p>The model clearly demonstrates the relationship between the surface and deep structures of the region’s crust. Subvertical magnetization structures start from large sources in the lower crust and transform as they rise by branching in the northwestern and northeastern directions and disintegrating into separate bodies in the upper crust.</p><p>Corresponding to different spatial frequencies, the distribution patterns of sources of horizontal sections of the 3D magnetic model with depths of 10, 15 and 20 km reveal extended structures of magnetic sources of northwestern run that trace riftogenic grabens of the White Sea.</p><p>The ring structures of magnetic sources could represent territories promising for mineral exploration.</p></sec><sec id="s6"><title>Acknowledgements</title><p>The research is performed within the framework of the research project AAAA-A18-118020290086-1 with the financial support of the Russian Foundation for Basic Research in the framework of scientific projects No. 21-05-00481 “Structure and Dynamics of the Lithosphere of the White Sea Region” and No. 20-35-90034 “Integration of Geophysical Methods for 2D and 3D Modeling of the Earth’s Crust of the White Sea and Adjacent Territories”.</p></sec><sec id="s7"><title>Conflicts of Interest</title><p>The authors declare no conflict of interest.</p></sec><sec id="s8"><title>Cite this paper</title><p>Bakunovich, L., Nilov, M., Sharov, N. and Belashev, B. 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