THE RESOLUTION OF COMBINED EFFECTS, WITH APPLICATIONS TO GRAVITATIONAL AND MAGNETIC DATA

Geophysics ◽  
1938 ◽  
Vol 3 (4) ◽  
pp. 315-331 ◽  
Author(s):  
Thomas A. Elkins ◽  
Sigmund Hammer

A simple but rigorous and quite general mathematical method is given for finding the minimum separation of two nearby bodies at which their observed combined effect indicates the presence of two separate bodies. Geophysical applications of the method are illustrated by investigating the resolution of gravity and torsion balance data for the two limiting cases of spheres and infinite horizontal cylinders, the resolution of the vertical magnetic intensity for infinite rectangular plugs, and the direct interpretation of the infinite horizontal rectangular block. The possible usefulness of such analysis in the selection of a geophysical field method and in the choice of station spacing is discussed.

KURVATEK ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 4 (1) ◽  
pp. 25-33
Author(s):  
Fatimah Fatimah

Tulakan Subdistrict, Pacitan Regency, East Java Province. This area is part of the Southern Mountain Zone of East Java, which is the Sunda-Banda magmatic arc of Oligo-Miocene age, where there are alterations and indications of valuable ore minerals. Field magnetic data is taken in an area of 1 x 1 km, with the looping method on the grid trajectory within 200 x 100 m. Then, magnetic data correction and data processing were carried out with Oasis Montaj. From the magnetic anomaly map, the value of high magnetic intensity in the southern part is fresh (intrusive) andesit-dasitic rock as host rock which causes alteration, in the middle has a low magnetic intensity value which is in the direction of the relatively NE-SW river direction, whereas in the north with high intensity is fresh andesite lava. From the image data, it can be seen that the straightness pattern of the geological structure which is dominated by the extensional structure with the direction of NE-SW and E-W is the main trap of epithermal veins carrying ore mineralization mainly Cu, Pb in the study area.


Author(s):  
Suresh Kumar Reddy Kuppi Reddy ◽  
Inkollu Sreedhar ◽  
Kondapuram Vijaya Raghavan ◽  
Shivanand Janardan Kulkarni ◽  
Machiraju Ramakrishna

The synthesis of pyridine bases from acetaldehyde, formaldehyde and ammonia through aminocyclization continues to provide the best prospect for meeting growing demand. A proper selection of catalyst and standardization of process parameters are vital to achieve a market friendly product distribution and reactor operation. In this work, the major responsible factors for enhancing the activity and selectivity of HZS-5 catalysts have been identified and their individual and combined effects on aldehyde conversion, coke formation and selectivity to pyridine formation have been assessed. A priori assessment of catalyst time on stream behavior has been achieved by modeling the catalyst deactivation process.


2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Peter Lelièvre ◽  
Dominique Fournier ◽  
Sean Walker ◽  
Nicholas Williams ◽  
Colin Farquharson

<p>Reduction to pole and other transformations of total field magnetic intensity data are often challenging to perform at low magnetic latitudes, when remanence exists, and when large topographic relief exists. Several studies have suggested use of inversion-based equivalent source methods for performing such transformations under those complicating factors. However, there has been little assessment of the importance of erroneous edge effects that occur when fundamental assumptions underlying the transformation procedures are broken. In this work we propose a transformation procedure that utilizes magnetization vector inversion, inversion-based regional field separation, and equivalent source inversion on unstructured meshes. We investigated whether edge effects in transformations could be reduced by performing a regional separation procedure prior to equivalent source inversion. We applied our proposed procedure to the transformation of total field magnetic intensity to magnetic amplitude data, using a complicated synthetic example based on a real geological scenario from mineral exploration. While the procedure performed acceptably on this test example, the results could be improved. We pose many questions regarding the various choices and control parameters used throughout the procedure, but we leave the investigation of those questions to future work.</p>


Geophysics ◽  
2013 ◽  
Vol 78 (6) ◽  
pp. B351-B359 ◽  
Author(s):  
Peter Tschirhart ◽  
Bill Morris ◽  
Greg Hodges

Regional-residual separation is a fundamental processing step required before interpreting any magnetic anomaly data. Numerous methods have been devised to separate deep-seated long-wavelength (regional) anomalies from the near-surface high-frequency (residual) content. Such methods range in complexity from simple wavelength filtering to full 3D inversions, but most procedures rely on the assumption that all long-wavelength anomalies are associated with deep source bodies: an incorrect assumption in some geologic environments. We evaluated a new method for determining the contributions of near-surface magnetic sources using frequency-domain helicopter-borne electromagnetic (HFEM) data. We inverted the in-phase and quadrature components of the HFEM data to produce an estimate of the spatial variation of magnetic susceptibility. Using this susceptibility information along with known topography and original survey flight path data, we calculated a magnetic intensity grid by forward modeling. There are two immediate benefits to this approach. First, HFEM systems have a limited effective depth of penetration, within the first hundred meters from the surface, so any magnetic sources detected by this method must be located in the near surface. Second, the HFEM-derived susceptibility is completely independent of magnetic remanence. In contrast, apparent susceptibility computed from the original magnetic intensity data incorporates all magnetic signal sources in its derivation. Crossplotting of [Formula: see text] versus [Formula: see text] served to reveal areas where the observed magnetic field was dominated by magnetic remanence and provided an estimate of the polarity of the remanence contribution. We evaluated an example, and discussed the limitations of this method using data from an area in the Bathurst Mining Camp, New Brunswick. Though it is broadly successful, caution is needed when using this method because near-surface conductive bodies and anthropogenic sources can cause erroneous HFEM susceptibility values, which in turn produce invalid magnetic field estimates in the forward modeling exercise.


Geophysics ◽  
1997 ◽  
Vol 62 (3) ◽  
pp. 814-830 ◽  
Author(s):  
Maurizio Fedi

The depth to the top, or bottom, and the density of a 3-D homogeneous source can be estimated from its gravity or magnetic anomalies by using a priori information on the maximum and minimum source depths. For the magnetic case, the magnetization direction is assumed to be constant and known. The source is assumed to be within a layer of known depth to the top h and thickness t. A depth model, satisfying both the data and the a priori information is found, together with its associated density/magnetization contrast. The methodology first derives, from the measured data, a set of apparent densities [Formula: see text] (or magnetizations), which do not depend on the layer parameters h and t, but only on source thickness. A nonlinear system of equations based on [Formula: see text], with source thicknesses as unknowns, is constructed. To simplify the solution, a more practical system of equations is formed. Each equation depends on only one value of thickness. Solving for the thicknesses, taking into account the above a priori information, the source depth to the top (or to the bottom) is determined uniquely. Finally, the depth solutions allow a unit‐density gravity model to be computed, which is compared to the observed gravity to determine the density contrast. A similar procedure can be used for magnetic data. Tests on synthetic anomalies and on real data demonstrate the good performance of this method.


1985 ◽  
Vol 22 (2) ◽  
pp. 311-314 ◽  
Author(s):  
John Broome ◽  
Réjean Simard ◽  
Dennis Teskey

Coloured magnetic maps published at the 1:1 000 000 scale by the Geological Survey of Canada have been found to be useful aids in support of regional geological mapping and compilation projects. However, because of the quantization into colour intervals, some of the fine detail contained in the original magnetic data is lost. These smaller features can be brought out quite effectively with the shaded relief technique, although there is an attendant loss of amplitude information, which can be recovered by means of stereo-shadowgrams. A second shadowgram is produced by offsetting the original shadowgram by an amount proportional to the magnetic intensity of each data point and then the offset and original shadowgrams are viewed as a stereo pair. An example of the effectiveness of these techniques is the detail that can be seen on the shadowgrams and stereo-shadowgrams for the Lockhart River (IMW NP 12/13) and the Thelon River (IMW NQ 12/13/14) map sheets.


Geophysics ◽  
2002 ◽  
Vol 67 (2) ◽  
pp. 555-561 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jeffrey B. Thurston ◽  
Richard S. Smith ◽  
Jean-Claude Guillon

The local wavenumber and a multimodel wavenumber are complex attributes derived from a complex analytic signal. These quantities have been used to interpret anomalies arising from contacts, thin sheets, and horizontal cylinders. A new multimodel wavenumber can be used for computing depths of 2-D thick dikes and 2-D sloping steps. These two multimodel wavenumbers have been incorporated into a depth-estimation algorithm based on automatic curve matching. This algorithm works on profile data and has three appealing features: (1) the most appropriate of these five models is selected automatically; (2) the automatic curve matching uses a least-squares technique to reject responses that do not conform to the model assumptions; and (3) interference from distant sources can be accounted for as a base-level shift of the multimodel wavenumber curves. Applying the automatic technique to survey data from the Western Canada sedimentary basin yields four thick dikes between 3400 and 4300 m below sensor. These depths are equivalent to 2.2 and 3.1 km below sea level, which is consistent with the basement depths derived from drillhole information. Using these solutions as a starting point in an iterative forward modeling exercise, the measured data were explained with a geologically reasonable model.


2017 ◽  
Vol 64 (4) ◽  
pp. 227-241
Author(s):  
Oluwaseun Tolutope Olurin

AbstractInterpretation of high resolution aeromagnetic data of Ilesha and its environs within the basement complex of the geological setting of Southwestern Nigeria was carried out in the study. The study area is delimited by geographic latitudes 7°30′–8°00′N and longitudes 4°30′–5°00′E. This investigation was carried out using Euler deconvolution on filtered digitised total magnetic data (Sheet Number 243) to delineate geological structures within the area under consideration. The digitised airborne magnetic data acquired in 2009 were obtained from the archives of the Nigeria Geological Survey Agency (NGSA). The airborne magnetic data were filtered, processed and enhanced; the resultant data were subjected to qualitative and quantitative magnetic interpretation, geometry and depth weighting analyses across the study area using Euler deconvolution filter control file in Oasis Montag software. Total magnetic intensity distribution in the field ranged from –77.7 to 139.7 nT. Total magnetic field intensities reveal high-magnitude magnetic intensity values (high-amplitude anomaly) and magnetic low intensities (low-amplitude magnetic anomaly) in the area under consideration. The study area is characterised with high intensity correlated with lithological variation in the basement. The sharp contrast is enhanced due to the sharp contrast in magnetic intensity between the magnetic susceptibilities of the crystalline and sedimentary rocks. The reduced-to-equator (RTE) map is characterised by high frequencies, short wavelengths, small size, weak intensity, sharp low amplitude and nearly irregular shaped anomalies, which may due to near-surface sources, such as shallow geologic units and cultural features. Euler deconvolution solution indicates a generally undulating basement, with a depth ranging from −500 to 1000 m. The Euler deconvolution results show that the basement relief is generally gentle and flat, lying within the basement terrain.


Geophysics ◽  
1987 ◽  
Vol 52 (10) ◽  
pp. 1442-1443
Author(s):  
Ronald Green

In the article by T. K. S. Prakasa Rao, M. Subrahmanyam, and A. Srikrishna Murty, the trivial problem of interpreting the magnetic anomaly over a horizontal cylinder was examined and a set of nomograms to assist with the interpretation was presented. Prakasa Rao et al. begin their discussion with equation (1) from Gay (1965).


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