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Volume 53, Issue 3
  • E-ISSN: 1365-2478

Abstract

ABSTRACT

The conventional spectral analysis method for interpretation of magnetic data assumes stationary spatial series and a white‐noise source distribution. However, long magnetic profiles may not be stationary in nature and source distributions are not white. Long non‐stationary magnetic profiles can be divided into stationary subprofiles following Wiener filter theory. A least‐squares inverse method is used to calculate the scaling exponents and depth values of magnetic interfaces from the power spectrum. The applicability of this approach is demonstrated on non‐stationary synthetic and field magnetic data collected along the Nagaur–Jhalawar transect, western India. The stationarity of the whole profile and the subprofiles of the synthetic and field data is tested. The variation of the mean and standard deviations of the subprofiles is significantly reduced compared with the whole profile. The depth values found from the synthetic model are in close agreement with the assumed depth values, whereas for the field data these are in close agreement with estimates from seismic, magnetotelluric and gravity data.

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