ANALYSIS OF SPECTRAL INVERSION APPROACH OF THE BOUGEUR GRAVITY DATA WITH AN APPLICATION TO ESH EL-MALLAHA AREA, SOUTHWESTERN GULF OF SUEZ, EGYPT | ||
Journal of Egyptian Geophysical Society | ||
Volume 13, Issue 1, 2015, Pages 1-12 PDF (1.47 M) | ||
Document Type: Original Article | ||
DOI: 10.21608/jegs.2015.385027 | ||
Authors | ||
A. Gamal1; A. Salem2; S.I. Farag3; A. Aref14; S. Hamed4 | ||
1Airborne Geophysics Department, Exploration Division, Nuclear Materials Authority (NMA), Maadi 11728, Cairo, Egypt | ||
2Getech Group plc, University of Leeds, Kitson House،Elmete Hall،Elmete Lane، Leeds LS8 2LJ, England | ||
3Geophysics Department, Faculty of Science, Ain Shams University, Abbassia 11566, Cairo, Egypt. | ||
4Geophysics Department, Faculty of Science, Ain Shams University, Abbassia 11566, Cairo, Egypt | ||
Abstract | ||
Numerous inversion schemes have been developed to delineate both geological structures and depths of the sedimentary basin from the observed Bougeur gravity data either in spatial- or frequency-domain. In the present study we attempted to analyze and evaluate the 'Oldenburg's inversion approach', one of the most common spectral layered-earth inversion schemes, with applications to both synthetic and real data sets using a kind of sequential multi-dimensional inversion strategy. Inversion of the created synthetic data was first performed to determine how accurate and sensitive of such a spectral inversion approach would be for both simple and complicated geometric layered-density models. Inversion of the observed data at Esh El-Mallaha area, one of the most promising Southwestern Gulf-of-Suez hydrocarbon basins with faulted basement in Egypt, was then performed to examine the applicability of such a spectral inversion approach to obtain plausible layered-density models which can be correlated with the available stratigraphic-control well results. | ||
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