Modeling Of Magnetic Data Research Articles

Magnetic data interpretation for 2D dikes by the metaheuristic bat algorithm: sustainable development cases

Metaheuristic algorithms are increasingly being utilized as a global optimal method in the inversion and modeling of magnetic data. We proposed the Bat Algorithm Optimization (BAO) technique that is based on bat echolocation performance to find the global optimum solution. The best-estimated source parameters that correspond to the objective function minimum value are obtained after achieving the global optimum (best) solution. The suggested BAO technique does not require any prior knowledge; rather, it is a global search method that provides an effective tool for scanning the space of data to appraise sources parameters. The BAO technique is applied to magnetic data in the class of dipping and vertical dikes along 2D profiles to estimate the dimensional source parameters that include the depth to top, origin location, amplitude coefficient, index angle of magnetization, and width of the dipping dikes. The BAO technique has been used for single and multiple dikes structures. The accuracy and stability of the BAO technique are achieved on different synthetic examples of free and noisy data for single and multiple cases. Furthermore, the presented BAO technique was effectively utilized in three field examples from China and Egypt for iron ore deposits and metavolcanics basalt rock investigations. Overall, the BAO technique recovered inversion outcomes are in good agreement with borehole, geology, and published literature results.

3D Inversion of Airborne Magnetic Data and Validation of it by Using Sourk Mine Drilling Data

The airborne magnetic method is one of the most significantly applied approaches in mineral exploration. This magnetic method has been widely used in recent years due to its extensive coverage, lower cost than other methods and coverage of impassable areas and forests. For many years in Iran, the magnetic method has been utilized by authorities to survey ore deposits and to prepare structural and geological maps. This paper presents part of the Dehshir area exploration data of airborne surveys by helicopter with flight line spacing of 250 meters and flight height of 40 meters conducted by Geological Survey and Mineral Exploration of Iran. Furthermore, among the potential areas in the Dehshir area is the studied hereby area of Block C2 of Sourk mine. This region in Yazd province with a 4.1 km2 area is located at 95 km northwest of Yazd city. The purpose of this paper is to present a three-dimensional model of magnetic data and its validation using drilling data. The three-dimensional modeling of magnetic data has been processed by Inversion method. Next, the locations of boreholes were proposed for drilling. Then, the boreholes data is used to evaluate the geophysical method model by comparing the three-dimensional modeling of magnetic data and three-dimensional modeling of the proposed drilled boreholes data.

Inverse Modeling Using Taylor Expansion Approach and Jacobi Matrix on Magnetic Data (Dyke/Magma Intrusion Cases)

The mathematical modelling of geological structures, i.e. magma intrusion or dyke, has been done, based on magnetic data with inversion techniques using MatLab. The magnetic equation is a non-linear equation, and completion is done using a linear approach to non-linear mathematical models of magnetic data using the Taylor expansion approach and Jacobi Matrix. The first step of this research is to make synthetic data forward modelling from the magnetic equation of magma intrusion or dyke cases without errors, and the next stepping then add errors to the data. The next step is to do an inversion to get the parameters sought, i.e. depth and angle of the magma intrusion, by giving initial guesses, and then re-correct iteratively until convergent results are obtained. Finally, parameters of slope dyke or thin magma intrusion and its depth can be determined. The results obtained indicate that this technique can be used to get physical parameters sought from magnetic data for simple geological cases, i.e. dyke and magma intrusion.

How natural remanent magnetization of basaltic units can dominate the reduced to pole magnetic value: A case study from the Faroe Islands

ABSTRACTEarly attempts to utilize magnetic data to understand the volcanic and subvolcanic succession on the Faroese Continental Shelf have shown that conventional interpretation and modelling of magnetic data from this area leads to ambiguous results. Interpretation of the aeromagnetic data on the Faroese Continental Shelf shows that some previously identified basement highs coincide with reduced‐to‐pole magnetic highs, whereas others coincide with negative or mixed magnetic features. Similarly, igneous centres are characterized by different polarity magnetic anomalies. Palaeomagnetic analysis of the onshore volcanic succession has demonstrated that the thermoremanent magnetization of the basaltic lavas is stronger than the induced magnetism, and both reversely and normally magnetized units are present. We have tested this with 2½D profile modelling using the palaeomagnetic information to correlate high‐amplitude magnetic anomalies with basalt successions containing changes in magnetic polarity. This approach has enabled us to map the termination of the differently magnetized units offshore and thereby extend the mapping of the Faroe Island Basalt Group on the Faroese Platform and into adjacent areas.

Forward and inverse modeling of magnetic data under complex magnetism effects: Remanence, self‐demagnetization and magnetic anisotropy

Forward and inverse modeling of magnetic data under complex magnetism effects: Remanence, self‐demagnetization and magnetic anisotropy

Initial rifting and breakup between Nova Scotia and Morocco: insight from new magnetic models 1This article is one of a series of papers published in this CJES Special Issue on the theme of Mesozoic–Cenozoic geology of the Scotian Basin. 2Earth Sciences Sector Contribution 20120024.

New models of magnetic data are presented that provide insight into the early stages of rifting and breakup between Morocco and Nova Scotia. The margins, which began forming during the Late Triassic rifting and Middle Jurassic separation of the North American and African plates, display considerable variability in deeper crustal structure, faulting style, and basin geometry along their length. The central and northeastern portions of the Nova Scotia margin show characteristics of a magma-poor margin, with a high degree of crustal thinning and a complex ocean-continent transition zone with little direct evidence of volcanism. In contrast, the margin to the southwest of Nova Scotia has clearly recognized characteristics of a volcanic-style rifted margin, including seaward-dipping reflector (SDR) sequences that are interpreted as rift-related volcanic flows overlying basement. These SDRs are coincident with a strong linear magnetic anomaly, the East Coast Magnetic Anomaly (ECMA), which shares many characteristics with the West African Coast Magnetic Anomaly (WACMA). Both magnetic anomalies change character and diminish in amplitude northward along the margins. The new models show the expected decrease in magnetic source material towards the northeastern end of the margin and suggest that modest amounts of igneous material, emplaced at or near the edge of the thinned continental crust, will satisfy the observed anomalies in this magma-poor section of the margin. These new interpretations and supporting evidence indicate volcanism was a factor along much of the margin during early rifting between Nova Scotia and Morocco.

Crustal structure from 2-D gravity and magnetic data modeling, magnetic power spectrum inversion, and seismotectonics in the Laguna Salada basin, northern Baja California, Mexico

Hemos construido un modelo 2-D de la estructura de la corteza que explica datos aeromagnéticos y de gravedad en un perfil entre la Sierra Juárez y la parte occidental del Valle de Mexicali, cruzando la cuenca Laguna Salada. El modelo ha sido acotado utilizando inferencias independientes acerca de la estructura cortical obtenidas a partir de estudios de refracción sísmica y del modelo Airy-Heiskannen de compensación isostática, mediciones de la densidad de masa y de susceptibilidad magnética en muestras de roca y de un registro de densidad de masa en un pozo, así como con resultados de la inversión del espectro de densidad de potencia de anomalías magnéticas. Nuestro modelo 2-D sugiere que la Sierra Juárez tiene una raíz que se extiende hasta una profundidad de 42 km y que la interfase corteza-manto alcanza una profundidad de 25 km en la región de la cuenca Laguna Salada, Sierra Cucapá, y la parte más occidental del Valle de Mexicali. La inversión del espectro de potencia y el modelo 2-D sugieren que la base de la corteza magnetizada está a ~16 km de profundidad en la región de la Sierra Cucapá. En el modelo 2-D, la geometría de la cuenca Laguna Salada sugiere una estructura de medio graben, donde el basamento profundiza hacia el oriente, con un relleno sedimentario máximo del orden de 3 km. La zona sismogénica alcanza una profundidad de casi 20 km, en concordancia con la profundidad inferida a partir del análisis espectral de las anomalías magnéticas. La microsismicidad en la cuenca Laguna Salada ocurre en cúmulos de eventos que indican zonas de debilidad en donde se relajan los esfuerzos. Los hipocentros se localizaron entre 0 y 19.6 km, siendo más profundos en las márgenes de la cuenca, con tendencias que, dentro de los errores de localización, correlacionan bien con el sistema regional de fallas en el área en estudio. Los mecanismos focales determinados evidencian deformación transtensional, en concordancia con el marco tectónico regional.

The southern West Greenland continental margin: rifting history, basin development, and petroleum potential

The development of the continental margin of West Greenland is closely related to the processes that led to the opening of the Labrador Sea. The opening of the Labrador Sea began in the Early Paleocene (anomaly 27N), and not in the Late Cretaceous as previously supposed. Modelling of magnetic data and new interpretation of seismic data indicate that a large area previously regarded as underlain by oceanic crust is in fact underlain by block-faulted continental crust overlain by syn- and post-rift sedimentary sequences. The ocean–continent transition is now placed 100–150 km southwest of the foot of the continental slope instead of at the foot of this slope. Rifting in the Labrador Sea area began, however, in the Early Cretaceous. The earliest sediments are the syn-rift lower and upper members of the Bjarni Formation on the Labrador shelf and their likely equivalents, the pre- to syn-rift Kitsissut and Appat sequences on the Greenland margin. The age of these units is Barremian (or older) to Albian. The units are overlain by widespread mudstone-dominated units, the Markland Formation of the Labrador shelf and the Kangeq Sequence on the Greenland margin. The former is Cenomanian–Danian in age. By analogy the base of the Kangeq Sequence is probably Cenomanian (or Turonian), while the top is known from well ties to be at the Cretaceous–Tertiary boundary. Rifting was subdued during deposition of these mudstone units. Rifting was renewed in the Early Paleocene, and mudstones, siltstones and very fine sandstones were deposited. With the initiation of sea-floor spreading there was considerable igneous activity at the ocean–continent transition, as well as in the onshore area where picrites followed by plagioclase-porphyritic basalts were erupted. After the end of the Paleocene there was little rifting in the region, but compressional structures were formed locally as a response to transpression related to strike-slip movements that transferred plate motion from the Labrador Sea to Baffin Bay. A marked Early Oligocene unconformity separates the syn-drift Paleocene–Eocene succession from the post-drift middle Oligocene–Quaternary sediments. Sediments deposited since the Paleocene are dominated by sands. The main hydrocarbon play types offshore West Greenland are related to tilted fault blocks. Source rocks are anticipated near the base of the Kangeq Sequence, which is also the seal, and reservoirs are sandstones in the Appat and Kitsissut sequences. These two sequences were not reached by any of the exploration wells drilled in the 1970s.