Study on the fractal character of magnetic anomaly fields and the delineation of tectonic elements in the South China Sea

This is a quantitative method for studying the fractal character of magnetic anornaly fields and delineating tectonic elements using fractal theory . For an area with different geological and geophysical features , the definition of Hausdorff dimension is used to calculate the fractal dimension of the area's magnetic field , then delineate geological tectonic elements by comparing this value . Use of 1978- 1986 geophysical survey data in this method applied to the South China Sea yielded three first grade tectonic elements and nine second grade ones , in six of which subsecond grade elernents were found.