Constraining 3D geometric gravity inversion with 2D reflection seismic profile using a generalized level-set approach: application to Eastern Yilgarn craton [post]

Mahtab Rashidifard, Jérémie Giraud, Mark Lindsay, Mark Jessell, Vitaliy Ogarko
2021 unpublished
Abstract. One of the main tasks in 3D geological modelling is the boundary parametrization of the subsurface from geological observations and geophysical inversions. Several approaches have been developed for geometric inversion and joint inversion of geophysical datasets. However, the robust, quantitative integration of models and datasets with different spatial coverage, resolution, and levels of sparsity remains challenging. One promising approach for recovering the boundary of the
more » ... units is the utilization of a level-set inversion method with potential field data. We focus on constraining 3D geometric gravity inversion with sparse lower-uncertainty information from a 2D seismic section. We use a level-set approach to recover the geometry of geological bodies using two synthetic examples and data from the geologically complex Yamarna terrane (Yilgarn craton, Western Australia). In this study, a 2D seismic section has been used for constraining the location of rock unit boundaries being solved during the 3D gravity geometric inversion. The proposed work is the first we know of that automates the process of adding spatially distributed constraints to the 3D level-set inversion. In many hard-rock geoscientific investigations, seismic data is sparse and our results indicate that unit boundaries from gravity inversion can be much better constrained with seismic information even though they are sparsely distributed within the model. Thus, we conclude that it has the potential to bring the state of the art a step further towards building a 3D geological model incorporating several sources of information in similar regions of investigation.
doi:10.5194/se-2021-65 fatcat:tuh7cemk3fbszfxisubey45aiq