Large-scale 3D inversion of marine magnetotelluric data: Case study from the Gemini prospect, Gulf of Mexico

Geophysics

Volumn 76, Issue 1, 2011, Pages

  Zhdanov, Michael S ^a   Wan, Le ^a   Gribenko, Alexander ^a   Čuma, Martin ^a   Key, Kerry ^b   Constable, Steven ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF UTAH   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ECONOMIC GEOLOGY; INTEGRAL EQUATIONS; INVERSE PROBLEMS; MAGNETOTELLURICS; OFFSHORE OIL WELL PRODUCTION; OFFSHORE PETROLEUM PROSPECTING; SEISMOLOGY;

GEOELECTRICAL STRUCTURE; INTEGRAL EQUATION METHODS; MAGNETOTELLURIC DATA; OFFSHORE HYDROCARBONS; PHYSICAL CONSTRAINTS; REASONABLE ACCURACY; SCRIPPS INSTITUTION OF OCEANOGRAPHIES; TIKHONOV REGULARIZATION;

TELLURIC PROSPECTING;

DATA INVERSION; ELECTRICAL RESISTIVITY; INVERSE PROBLEM; MAGNETOTELLURIC METHOD; SOFTWARE; THREE-DIMENSIONAL MODELING;

ATLANTIC OCEAN; GULF OF MEXICO;

EID: 84857312305     PISSN: 00168033     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1190/1.3526299     Document Type: Article

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