Three-dimensional gravity inversion using simulated annealing: Constraints on the diapiric roots of allochthonous salt structures

Geophysics

Volumn 66, Issue 5, 2001, Pages 1438-1449

  Nagihara, Seiichi ^a   Hall, Stuart A ^b  

^a TEXAS TECH UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HOUSTON   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANNEALING; GRAVITATION; PETROLEUM RESERVOIRS; SALTS; SEDIMENTS; GLOBAL OPTIMIZATION; INVERSE PROBLEMS; PETROLEUM RESERVOIR ENGINEERING; SEISMOLOGY; SIMULATED ANNEALING; TOPOGRAPHY;

ALLOCHTHONOUS SALT STRUCTURES; COMPUTATIONALLY EFFICIENT; CONTINENTAL SLOPE; DAMPED LEAST SQUARES; GLOBAL OPTIMIZATION ALGORITHM; GRAVITY INVERSIONS; MULTIPLE INVERSION; OIL AND GAS RESERVOIR; PRIORI INFORMATION;

GEOPHYSICS; SALT TECTONICS;

GRAVITY ANOMALY; HYDROCARBON RESERVOIR; SALT DOME;

EID: 0035454790     PISSN: 00168033     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1190/1.1487089     Document Type: Article

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