Area Description
The study area is centered over the Oka carbonatite complex. This complex is a composite pluton in Quebec (Canada), important for mining operations related to critical raw material such as Niobium and other rare earth.
Gravity Data
- Compilation of a terrestrial ground station dataset
- Grids of gravity anomalies and other derived products, derivatives and transforms (e.g. full tensor, THD, Tilt Angle etc.)
- Spatial Resolution: 100 m
Magnetic Data
- Compilation of a terrestrial airborne dataset
- Grid of Total magnetic anomaly
- Spatial Resolution: 100 m
Geological Data
- Full 3D geological model in terms of density distribution
- Regular grids of principal geological horizions build from a compilation of latest available models
- Spatial resolution: 100 m
Further Insight
The available results of a joint gravity and magnetic constrained Bayesian inversion performed with proprietary software are:
- Full 3D geological model in terms of density distribution
- Full 3D geological model in terms of magnetic susceptibility distribution
- Regular grids of principal geological horizons
- Spatial resolution: 100 m
Results have been published in Sampietro, D., Capponi, M., Maurizio, G. (2022). 3D Bayesian Inversion of Potential Fields: The Quebec Oka Carbonatite Complex Case Study. Geosciences (Submitted).