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In this paper, we introduce an innovative integrated approach to geophysical exploration of submarine massive sulfide deposits. The developed approach is based on three-dimensional inversions of multimodal geophysical data guided by other geophysical data and known geological information. The developed approach was applied to the quantitative interpretation of multimodal geophysical data acquired over a known hydrothermal deposit in Izena area, offshore Japan. There are good correlations between multimodal geophysical anomalies and known hydrothermal deposits. This paper demonstrates that integrated interpretation of the multimodal geophysical data can be effectively used for exploration of the seafloor hydrothermal (massive sulfide) deposits.

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2018-09-09
2024-03-29
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