Towards incorporating uncertainty of structural data in 3D geological inversion

Tectonophysics

Volumn 490, Issue 3-4, 2010, Pages 141-151

  Wellmann, J Florian ^a   Horowitz, Franklin G ^a   Schill, Eva ^b   Regenauer Lieb, Klaus ^a,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN AUSTRALIA   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NEUCHÂTEL   (Switzerland)

^c CSIRO   (Australia)

Author keywords

Geological inversion; Implicit 3D geological modelling; Potential field interpolation; Raw data quality; Uncertainty; Visualisation

Indexed keywords

3D GEOLOGICAL MODELLING; COMPLEX INTERACTION; DIFFERENT STRUCTURE; DOME STRUCTURE; FAULT BOUNDARY; FIELD METHODS; GENERIC MODELS; GEOLOGICAL DATA; GEOLOGICAL INVERSION; GEOLOGICAL MODELS; GEOLOGICAL SETTING; GEOLOGICAL STRUCTURES; GEOPHYSICAL SIMULATIONS; INCOMPLETE KNOWLEDGE; INDICATOR FUNCTIONS; INPUT DATAS; MODEL QUALITIES; ORIENTATION MEASUREMENTS; RAW DATA QUALITY; SIMULATED DATASETS; SIMULATION METHODS; STRUCTURAL DATA; SUBSURFACE STRUCTURES; THREE-DIMENSIONAL (3D) MODEL; THREE-DIMENSIONAL SETTINGS; VISUALISATION;

GEOLOGIC MODELS; INPUT OUTPUT PROGRAMS; INTERPOLATION; PROBABILITY DISTRIBUTIONS; UNCERTAINTY ANALYSIS; VISUALIZATION;

THREE DIMENSIONAL;

DATA INVERSION; GEOLOGICAL STRUCTURE; INTERPOLATION; POTENTIAL FIELD; PROBABILITY; THREE-DIMENSIONAL MODELING; UNCERTAINTY ANALYSIS; VISUALIZATION;

EID: 77954952742     PISSN: 00401951     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.tecto.2010.04.022     Document Type: Article

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