Magnetotelluric data inversion with seismic data constraint

Introduction The research on the structure and physical property of ancient hidden hill, igneous rocks and basement is relatively difficult by using seismic data only. If we combine seismic data, magneto-telluric (MT) data and geophysical data together, better results can be obtained for the above problem. A number of geophysicists at home and abroad, such as CHEN and WANG (1990), Siri-punvarapor and Egbert (2000) have tried many methods to solve the problem by the inversion of seismic da…

Magnetotelluric data inversion with seismic data constraint

In the paper we present a new method to invert the interior structure in the basement or ancient hidden hill by us-ing magnetotelluric (MT) data with seismic data constraint. We first obtain the thickness and resistivity of each layer above the basement or buried hill by the inversion of seismic and log data and create a geoelectrical model for the layers above the basement or hidden hill. Then with the reference to the inversion of 1D MT data, a geoelectrical model for the layers below the basement or hidden hill is created. On the basis of the above initial model, we present an effective and practical forward method, i.e., a model-matched approach to conduct forward inversion arithmetic. Finally, by the method of conjugate gradient iteration, a forward and backward iterative cal-culation is made. Taking No. 618 profile of Shengli Oil Field as an example, we have found out that the tectonic information that is unreflective in the seismic data below the basement is better reflected in the inversion result.