Depth and location estimating of magnetic anomaly sources using Euler deconvolution in area of Blatchford Lake, Canada

The magnetic data collected from airborne surveys need to be interpreted after processing. The most important information gathered from the interpretation stage, is the depth and horizontal position of anomalies. Various methods are developed for gathering these data. One of these methods is Euler deconvolution that is based on Euler’s homogenous equation. Euler's method is one of the fastest semi-automatic methods for determining the depth of buried magnetic and gravity anomalies. Its results are highly dependent on the structural index, Euler window size, and depth calculation error. This method identifies the depth and trend of changes in the depth of anomalies very well. The geological information of the study area is important for the application of this method. In this method, the potential field and its first-order derivatives are used in different directions to determine the position and depth of the potential field source. In this paper, by using this method, the depth, and boundaries of anomalies in the Lake Blatchford area of Canada are investigated. The obtained results indicate that most anomalies in this region have shallow to medium depth.