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Resolution of multiple sheet-type structures in self-potential measurement

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The resolution of self-potential anomalies due to closely spaced multiple sheet-like bodies by the potential difference and potential gradient is studied in this paper. Self-potential anomalies due to several synthetic models were inverted through a very fast simulated annealing (VFSA) global optimization. Increase in depth to the top, polarization constant and depth extent of the body decreases resolution at a particular target separation. It has been observed that depth to the top and separation between two targets play an important role in the resolution. Vertical sheets at equal depth can be resolved in the potential difference measurement only if they are separated by at least four times their depth, while they can be resolved in the gradient method, if they are separated by twice the depth. Resolution using potential difference becomes more difficult for dipping sheets, although the potential gradient method can resolve them efficiently. Efficacy of potential gradient data in the inversion is demonstrated in the study using synthetic data as well as field measurement from South Purulia Shear Zone related with uranium investigation.

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Authors would like to express their sincere thanks to Dr A K Chaubey (Associate Editor) and two anonymous reviewers for their comments and suggestions that have improved the manuscript. AB thanks IIT Kharagpur for Institute research fellowship.

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Biswas, A., Sharma, S.P. Resolution of multiple sheet-type structures in self-potential measurement. J Earth Syst Sci 123, 809–825 (2014). https://doi.org/10.1007/s12040-014-0432-1

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