摘要：The development of Tongchuan City,Shaanxi Province,located in the northwestern region of China,is restricted by water *** direct current resistivity and induced polarization sounding methods are typically applied in finding urban *** methods,however,are not effective due to their complicated topography and geological *** application practice shows that the audio magnetotelluric(AMT)method has a large depth of exploration,high work effi ciency,and high lateral *** investigate the distribution of groundwater resources,we deployed three audio-frequency magnetotelluric profiles in the city *** impedance tensor information of AMT data is obtained using *** data dimension analysis reveals that the two-dimensional structural features of the observation area are *** main structure of the observation area is about 45°northeast,as indicated by structural trend analysis.A shallow two-dimensional electrical profile of 1 km in Tongchuan City is obtained by two-dimensional nonlinear conjugate gradient ***,combined with regional geological information,the geological structure characteristics reflected by the electrical profile were obtained along with the detailed characteristics of water-rich structures in the *** infl uence of the structure on the groundwater distribution was analyzed,and the water-rich areas were identifi *** work contributes to the prospective development of Tongchuan City.