A non extensive view of electrical resistivity spatial distribution estimated using inverted Transient Electromagnetic responses in a karstified formation (Keritis basin, Crete, Greece)

Karstified geological structures are inherently complex with long-range spatial correlations in their physical properties. In the present study, the pseudo 3D electrical resistivity structure obtained after a Transient Electromagnetic Method (TEM) survey in the karstified Keritis Basin (Western Crete, Greece), analyzed in view of non-extensive statistical physics. Our results present that the electrical resistivity spatial pattern estimated after a layered TEM response inversion, follow a q-exponential distributions, a strong evidence of a multi-scaled hierarchical structure. The essential goal of this paper is to present in a real geological complex formation that the resistivity pattern obtained from 1D TEM inversion presents a spatial distribution, which described by non extensive statistical physics.