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Aiken, O.W., Keller, G.R. and Hinze, W.J. (1983). Geological significance of surface gravity measurements in the vicinity of the Illinois deep drill holes. Journal of Geophysical Research 88: doi: 10.1029/JB088iB09p07307. issn: 0148-0227. |
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A gravity study of northeaster Illinois and southwestern Wisconsin was undertaken to determine the three-dimensional geometry of the Precambrian granitic body encountered in the Illinois deep drill holes. Gravity data acquired during this study and existing observations show a marked negative gravity anomaly in the vicinity of these drill holes which is interpreted as originating from a negative density contrast between the granitic body and the intruded crystalline rocks. A fifteenth-order polynomial surface fitted to the Bouguer anomaly date (which includes only wavelengths greater than ~35 km) was chosen as best displaying the effects of the granitic body, and profiles of this surface were modeled employing a variety of techniques and assumptions. The preferred model of the causitive body has a depth to the top of 2 km, a density contrast of -100 kg m-3, and a maximum vertical extent of 5 km. An isopach map of the body constructed from the modeling places the Illinois deep drill holes on the edge of an oval-shaped mass. |
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