4. Structural analysis from aeromagnetic data
Society of Exploration Geophysicists and Australian Society of Exploration Geophysicists eBooks · 2013
Structural geology, to quote Hobbs et al. (1976), ‘deals with the ways in which rocks respond to the application of deforming forces, and with the structures that result from deformation’. In the broader sense, ‘structure’ in geology relates to all of the 3-D geometry of all rock units in a region, and the processes through time that have produced that geometry. Aeromagnetic data, with its inherent ability to ‘see’ magnetic rock bodies in 3-D, provides an excellent tool in the understanding of structure in our area of interest.