Gravity inversion of basement relief constrained by the knowledge of depth at isolated points

GEOPHYSICS

Volumn 61, Issue 6, 2021, Pages 1702-1714

  Leão, Jorge W D ^a   Menezes, Paulo T L ^b   Beltrão, Jacira F ^a   Silva, João B C ^a  

^a University of Para   (Brazil)

^b Observ Nacional R General Bruce   (Brazil)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DAMPING; DENSITY (SPECIFIC GRAVITY); ESTIMATION; GEOLOGICAL SURVEYS; GRAVITATION; INTERFACES (MATERIALS); POLYNOMIALS; STATISTICAL METHODS;

DENSITY CONTRASTS; GRAVITY INVERSION ANALYSIS; LITINSKY EFFECTIVE DENSITY CONCEPT;

GEOPHYSICAL PROSPECTING;

BASEMENT RELIEF; DATA INTERPRETATION; DEPTH DETERMINATION; GRAVITY ANOMALY; INVERSION;

EID: 0030292229     PISSN: 00168033     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1190/1.1444088     Document Type: Article

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