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- Title
Magnetic field transforms with low sensitivity to the direction of source magnetization and high centricity.
- Authors
Stavrev, Petar; Gerovska, Daniela
- Abstract
Magnetic data interpretation faces difficulties due to the various shapes of magnetic anomalies and the positions of their extrema with respect to the causative bodies for different directions of the source magnetization. The well-known transforms — reduction to the pole, pseudogravity field, and analytic signal (total gradient) — help in reducing the problem. Another way to achieve the required effect is the transformation of magnetic data, ΔT or Z, into values of the anomalous magnetic intensity T. In this respect, we have found some transforms based on differential operators such as the gradient of T and its modulus R=∇T, the Laplacian L=∇²T, the product T∇²T and its square root Q, and the Laplacian ∇²(T²) and its square root E, to be useful. They are slightly sensitive to the magnetization orientation and their extrema occur above the sources For a 2D anomaly of a homogeneous causative body, the proposed transforms do not depend on the inclination of magnetization. In the 3D case, such independence does not exist even for the elementary field of a point dipole. The influence of the magnetization direction is estimated by an integral coefficient of sensitivity. This coefficient takes values of up to 2.0 for ΔT or Z anomalies, while their transforms T, R, E, Q and L have values of less than 0.28, 0.29, 0.24, 0.16 and 0.07, respectively, i.e. on average, 10 times less. The estimation of the centricity is carried out using the relative deviation of the principal extremum of the anomaly or its transforms from the epicentre of the model body at a depth equal to 100 units. For a ΔT anomaly this deviation is up to 67%; for the L transform it is less than 8%; for Q, E, R and T it is less than 10%, 15%, 20% and 25%, respectively. The proposed transforms take only non-negative values. With respect to their shape, the peripheral magnetic extrema are removed the anomalous configuration is...
- Subjects
MAGNETIC anomalies; MAGNETIZATION; MAGNETIC fields
- Publication
Geophysical Prospecting, 2000, Vol 48, Issue 2, p317
- ISSN
0016-8025
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1046/j.1365-2478.2000.00188.x