Scientific Quarterly Journal of Geosciences

Scientific Quarterly Journal of Geosciences

Gravity Interpretation via Gravity Gradients and Analytic Signal

Document Type : Original Research Paper

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Institute of Geophysics, Tehran university, Tehran, Iran
Abstract
       Gravity and its usage in gravity interpretation is still a challenging field. It is not easy to compute these gradients especially in the case of noisy data. Analytical signal  is one of the new methods that uses gravity gradients to locate the perturbing body. This method  had already  been  used  for  high-resolution  magnetic and gravity data and rarely used for low-quality gravity data. The gravity gradients and analytical signal have been applied in two different areas, Zahedan where we are looking for Choromite anomalies and Tehran (Mard Abad)  where we are investigating for low density anomaly, Probably hydrocarbon.
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