Magnetic-doublet method of interpretation of arbitrarily large total intensity anomalies

Abstract

In mining geophysics, analysis of total intensity magnetic anomalies in terms of equivalent magnetic-doublets has been extensively used for approximate determination of depth, offset and the length of the disturbing bodies. Total intensity data collected on the ground over shallow magnetized bodies cannot be interpreted quantitatively by the available methods of interpretation which assume that the resultant field lies in the direction of Earth's normal field as the anomalous field vector is small when compared to the normal field vector. In the present investigation, the above assumption has been eliminated and total intensity magnetic anomalies due to disturbing bodies are analyzed in terms of their magnetic-doublet equivalents. From sets of theoretical total magnetic anomaly curves (some are reproduced) Tables have been prepared using the characteristic points and are shown in Tables 1 to 7. These Tables can be used for the direct determination of depth, offset, etc., by using information from suitably chosen field profiles.