Density interface inversion method in spherical coordinates and its application in the South China mainland
WANG Xiang1,2(), GUO Liang-Hui1
1.School of Geophysics and Information Technology, China University of Geosciences (Beijing), Beijing 100083, China 2.Kunming Natural Resources Comprehensive Survey Center of China Geological Survey, Kunming 650000, China
The density interface inversion method has been playing an important role in the oil and gas exploration, regional structure inference studies as well as crustal crystal basement surface and Moho undulations researches. Most of the density interface inversion methods are generally based on the Cartesian coordinate system. When large regional or even global scale data are dealt with, the influence of earth curvature cannot be ignored, and the density interface inversion method based on Tesseroid model of spherical coordinate system needs to be considered. However, due to the limitations of calculation accuracy and efficiency, the existing density interface inversion method based on Tesseroid cannot be well applicable to the surface gravity observation data. In this paper, on the basis of previous studies, a density interface inversion method of spherical coordinate system suitable for surface observation data is proposed. Firstly, the gravity Gauss-Legendre integral formula in the spherical coordinate system is simplified to improve the forward calculation efficiency. Then, an optimized adaptive subdivision algorithm is introduced to enhance the calculation accuracy. According to the previous forward calculation and by using Cordell iterative optimization algorithm, the authors propose a density interface inversion method for the surface observation data in the spherical coordinate system. The proposed inversion method in this paper can be verified through the synthetic data test. The inversion results show that the proposed method can overcome the limitation of calculating precision and efficiency of the surface observation data. In addition, the inversion results based on spherical coordinate system are better than those based on cartesian coordinate system. Finally, tests on real data from South China mainland verify the feasibility of the presented methods. The results show that Moho depth rises gradually from the west to the east, with the western part uplifting dramatically and the eastern part uplifting gently. Between Wuling Mountain and Guizhou-Guangxi border, there is an obvious NNE-Moho step.
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