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John W. Cady

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USGS1984

Geophysical interpretation of the gneiss terrane of northern Washington and southern British Columbia, and its implications for uranium exploration

The Omineca crystalline belt of northeastern Washington and southern British Columbia has a regional Bouguer gravity high, and individual gneiss domes within the terrane are marked by local gravity highs. Models of crustal structure that satisfy the limited available seismic-refraction data and explain the gravity high over the gneiss terrane permit the hypothesis that the core metamorphic complexes are the surface expression of a zone of dense infrastructure that makes up the upper 20 km (kilometers) of the crust within the crystalline belt. The Omineca crystalline belt is characterized regionally by low aeromagnetic relief. The gneiss domes and biotite- and biotite-muscovite granites are generally marked by low magnetic relief, whereas hornblende-biotite granites often cause magnetic highs. Exceptional magnetic highs mark zones of magnetic rock within the biotite- and biotite-muscovite granites and the gneiss domes; these areas are worthy of study, both to determine the origin and disposition of the magnetite and to explore the possible existence of uraniferous magnetite deposits.

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USGS1977

Calculation of gravity and magnetic anomalies along profiles with end corrections and inverse solutions for density and magnetization

An equation derived for the vertical gravity field due to a body with polygonal cross section and finite strike length. The equations consists of the 2-dimensional equation of Talwani, Worzel, and Landisman (1959), with the addition of end corrections. Equations for the magnetic field due to a similar body were derived by Shuey and Pasquale (1973). They coined the term "2 1/2-dimensional" to describe the geometry. If the geometry of the causative body or bodies is specified, the 2 1/2-dimensional equations can be combined with observation of the gravity and magnetic anomaly fields to make linear least squares solutions for density and susceptibility or remanent magnetization. A computer program is presented which performs, for one or more bodies, along a profile perpendicular to strike, both forward calculations for the magnetic and gravity anomaly fields and independent gravity and magnetic inverse calculations for density and susceptibility or remanent magnetization.

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