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Aiken et al. 1983
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.

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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