Study of physical and structural properties in the region of the Pantanal, Paraná and Chaco-

Paraná Basins using joint inversion of gravity and surface wave dispersion curves data
Denise Silva de Moura¹ *, Yara Regina Marangoni¹, Carlos Alberto Moreno Chaves¹
,

¹ IAG - USP, *denise.moura@usp.br

Introduction A new South America gravity anomaly model Perspectives

Here we present the previous results of a project that will use gravity and seismological Get collaborations with
data to derive 3D models of density and S-wave velocity for the Pantanal, Paraná and Chaco- Figure 3: Gravimetric anomaly universities / institutes to build an Organize and process the
(Continent – Bouguer, Ocean – updated gravity anomaly model Rayleigh and Love waves
Paraná basin regions, through the joint inversion of these two types of geophysical data.
Free air) map. The grid is the dispersion curves.
for South America.
In order to integrate the gravity terrestrial data used in this work
anomaly data with the surface wave combined with the South .
dispersion curves in a joint inversion America gravity model SAGM04.
scheme, we will test empirical
relationships suggested in the Surface wave velocity inversions.
literature. Thus, we aim to derive new Gravity data inversions.
Figure 4: Residual Bouguer anomaly
models of the crust and the upper map compared with the EGM2008.
mantle physical properties.

Figure 1: Gravimetric terrestrial

data presented by country:
Brazil, IAG-USP (66707);
Paraguay, LTG-USP (6860);
Argentina, IGN (7511). The
Build the joint inversion routine.
seismograms are from the RSBR
(Brazilian Seismographic
Network) including the temporary
stations from the XC network. Get an improved density and Vs 3D models for the Paraná,
We present an updated South America gravity anomaly Chaco-Paraná and Pantanal Basins region.
The analyses will also require grid (figure 3) as a collateral product of the gravimetric data
some comparison with 11 ANP
preprocessing.
wells. The Pantanal, Paraná and
Chaco-Paraná basins are A long wavelength anomaly at Northern Paraguay is not
demarcated. verified by a recent terrestrial survey (figure 4). The
improvement of the gravity data assures the present work and
collaborates with many other studies.
Figure 2: The 70 points removed
from the original dataset. The
analysis compares the observed
data with gravity and topography
global models, Sandwell et al., Gravity effect of the sediments
2014 and SRTM, respectively.

The contributions to the gravity anomalies

come from several sources. We calculate the
effect of the sediments from the continental
Figure 7: Conceptual illustration of the primary sensitivities of the
basins (figure 5) and remove it from our updated different data sets to different depths of the lithosphere (Ammon et al.,
model to highlight deeper lateral density 2010).
variations (figure 6).
.
Figure 6: Residual Bouguer
anomaly map for the study area
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