ABSTRACT
Quantitative analysis/interpretation was undetaken on an aeromagnetic data covering latitude 6°00’-6°30’N and longitude 7°00’-7°30’E of Mmaku area, South Eastern, Nigeria by means of spectral depth analysis and Euler Deconvolution. To determine the sedimentary thickness or the depth to basement peculiar within the area, regional-residual separation was applied on the total aeromagnetic data. The resulting residual was divided into overlapping sixteen (16) spectral grids using Ms Excel. This was saved in Comma Separated Variable (CSV) format and thus imported into Origin Pro software where Fast Fourier Transform (FFT) or spectral analysis was performed on the windowed or gridded residual. The residual data was also imported into Oasis Montaj software for Standard 3D Euler Deconvolution. The result of the spectral analysis shows that the depth to various causative sources vary from 3.472 km to 6.972 km for the deeper sources, with average thickness of 5.010 km and 1.177 km to 1.834 km for the shallower sources, with average value of 1.047 km. From the Euler depth solutions, depth values ranging from 1525.74 km to 2919.21 km was revealed using structural index (SI) of 1 while depth values of 2290.49 km to 4447.62 km and 925. 93 km to 5790.49 km was observed when SI of 2 and 3 respectively were chosen. This study presents, therefore, suitable sedimentary thickness for hydrocarbon exploration to exist within the area.
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