The subsurface three-dimensional modeling of volcano arc of Flores island based on gravity data analysis

Abstract

The interpretation and three-dimensional modeling of the subsurface structure of the volcano arc of the Flores island based on the gravity data analysis have been done. This research is aimed for modeling subsurface structure utilized a secondary data of complete Bouguer anomaly gravity data obtained from Bureau Gravimetric International (BGI) using Grablox and Bloxer software. The modeling construction was performed by inversion technique applying the method of Singular Value Decomposition (SVD) and Occam inversion. The result indicates that Subsurface structure of the volcano area of the Flores island consists of sandstone, breccia and andesite have density value ranging from 2,42 g/cm3 to 2,62 g/cm3 and basaltic and lava have density values ranging from 2,65 g/cm3 to 3,24 g/cm3. The most dominating rocks in the study area are basaltic rocks have 2.73 g/cm3 point of average density. The existence of magma chamber in the volcanic arc of Flores island was estimated at a depth of 6 km.