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Gravity Interpretation

Fundamentals and Application of Gravity Inversion and Geological Interpretation

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  1. Wolfgang Jacoby Johannes

    1. Institut für Geowissenschaften, Gutenberg-Universität Mainz, 55099 Mainz, Germany

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  2. Peter L. Smilde

    1. 55257 Budenheim, Germany

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  • Application and interpretation of gravity data for both geophysicists and geologists

  • Basis for using and understanding large data sets (satellite missions)

  • Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras

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Table of contents (8 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages I-XX
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  2. Introduction

    • Wolfgang Jacoby Johannes, Peter L. Smilde
    Pages 1-22

  3. Fundamentals of Gravity, Elements of Potential Theory

    • Wolfgang Jacoby Johannes, Peter L. Smilde
    Pages 23-111

  4. Observations and Field Activities

    • Wolfgang Jacoby Johannes, Peter L. Smilde
    Pages 113-149

  5. Gravity Anomalies and Disturbances: Reductions and Analyses

    • Wolfgang Jacoby Johannes, Peter L. Smilde
    Pages 151-179

  6. Qualitative Interpretation

    • Wolfgang Jacoby Johannes, Peter L. Smilde
    Pages 181-231

  7. Quantitative Interpretation

    • Wolfgang Jacoby Johannes, Peter L. Smilde
    Pages 233-270

  8. Optimization and Inversion

    • Wolfgang Jacoby Johannes, Peter L. Smilde
    Pages 271-382

  9. Erratum

    • Publisher
    Pages E1-E2

  10. Back Matter

    Pages 383-395
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About this book

Gravity interpretation involves inversion of data into models, but it is more. Gravity interpretation is used in a “holistic” sense going beyond “inversion”. Inversion is like optimization within certain a priori assumptions, i.e., all anticipated models lie in a limited domain of the a priori errors. No source should exist outside the anticipated model volume, but that is never literally true. Interpretation goes beyond by taking “outside” possibilities into account in the widest sense. Any neglected possibility carries the danger of seriously affecting the interpretation. Gravity interpretation pertains to wider questions such as the shape of the Earth, the nature of the continental and oceanic crust, isostasy, forces and stresses, geol- ical structure, nding useful resources, climate change, etc. Interpretation is often used synonymously with modelling and inversion of observations toward models. Interpretation places the inversion results into the wider geological or economic context and into the framework of science and humanity. Models play a central role in science. They are images of phenomena of the physical world, for example, scale images or metaphors, enabling the human mind to describe observations and re- tionships by abstract mathematical means. Models served orientation and survival in a complex, partly invisible physical and social environment.
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Authors and Affiliations

  • Institut für Geowissenschaften, Gutenberg-Universität Mainz, 55099 Mainz, Germany

    Wolfgang Jacoby Johannes

  • 55257 Budenheim, Germany

    Peter L. Smilde

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Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Gravity Interpretation

  • Book Subtitle: Fundamentals and Application of Gravity Inversion and Geological Interpretation

  • Authors: Wolfgang Jacoby Johannes, Peter L. Smilde

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-85329-9

  • Publisher: Springer Berlin, Heidelberg

  • eBook Packages: Earth and Environmental Science, Earth and Environmental Science (R0)

  • Copyright Information: Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg 2009

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-540-85328-2Published: 13 February 2009

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-3-642-44850-8Published: 23 September 2014

  • eBook ISBN: 978-3-540-85329-9Published: 01 February 2009

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XX, 395

  • Topics: Geophysics/Geodesy, Geology, Earth Sciences, general

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