TY - BOOK ID - 14299946 TI - Gravity Interpretation : Fundamentals and Application of Gravity Inversion and Geological Interpretation AU - Jacoby, Wolfgang. AU - Smilde, Peter L. PY - 2009 SN - 3540853286 3540853294 PB - Berlin, Heidelberg : Springer Berlin Heidelberg : Imprint: Springer, DB - UniCat KW - Electronic books. -- local. KW - Geological modeling. KW - Gravity anomalies. KW - Astronomy & Astrophysics KW - Physics KW - Physical Sciences & Mathematics KW - Cosmic Physics KW - Theoretical Astronomy KW - Modeling, Geological KW - Anomalies, Gravity KW - Bouguer anomalies KW - Gravity, Local disturbance of KW - Isostatic anomalies KW - Earth sciences. KW - Geology. KW - Geophysics. KW - Earth Sciences. KW - Geophysics/Geodesy. KW - Earth Sciences, general. KW - Models and modelmaking KW - Gravity KW - Plumb-line deflections KW - Prospecting KW - Geophysical methods KW - Physical geography. KW - Geography. KW - Cosmography KW - Earth sciences KW - World history KW - Geognosy KW - Geoscience KW - Natural history KW - Geography KW - Measurement. KW - Geosciences KW - Environmental sciences KW - Physical sciences KW - Geological physics KW - Terrestrial physics UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:14299946 AB - Gravity interpretation involves inversion of data into models, but it is more. Gravity interpretation is used in a “holistic” sense going beyond “inversion”. Inversion is like optimization within certain a priori assumptions, i.e., all anticipated models lie in a limited domain of the a priori errors. No source should exist outside the anticipated model volume, but that is never literally true. Interpretation goes beyond by taking “outside” possibilities into account in the widest sense. Any neglected possibility carries the danger of seriously affecting the interpretation. Gravity interpretation pertains to wider questions such as the shape of the Earth, the nature of the continental and oceanic crust, isostasy, forces and stresses, geol- ical structure, nding useful resources, climate change, etc. Interpretation is often used synonymously with modelling and inversion of observations toward models. Interpretation places the inversion results into the wider geological or economic context and into the framework of science and humanity. Models play a central role in science. They are images of phenomena of the physical world, for example, scale images or metaphors, enabling the human mind to describe observations and re- tionships by abstract mathematical means. Models served orientation and survival in a complex, partly invisible physical and social environment. ER -