Inversion of gravity-field inclination to map the basement relief of sedimentary basins

Geophysics

Volumn 69, Issue 5, 2004, Pages 1240-1251

  Mendonça, Carlos Alberto ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SÃO PAULO   (Brazil)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CATCHMENTS; DENSITY (SPECIFIC GRAVITY); INVERSE PROBLEMS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; BUILDINGS; CONTRAST MEDIA; GEOMETRY; GRAVIMETERS; MATHEMATICAL TRANSFORMATIONS; MODELS; NUMERICAL ANALYSIS; SEDIMENTOLOGY; SEDIMENTS; SETTLING TANKS; SIGNAL PROCESSING;

GRAVITY COMPONENTS; SEDIMENTARY BASINS; CONSTANT DENSITY; CONSTANT FACTORS; GEOPHYSICAL SIGNAL PROCESSING; GRAVITY ANOMALIES; HOMOGENEOUS MEDIA; LINEAR TRANSFORM; SEDIMENTARY BASIN; VERTICAL COMPONENT;

GRAVITATION; INVERSE PROBLEMS;

DATA INVERSION; GRAVITY ANOMALY; GRAVITY FIELD; GRAVITY SURVEY; SEDIMENTARY BASIN;

EID: 8144222755     PISSN: 00168033     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1190/1.1801940     Document Type: Article

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