Research Article

3D Gravity Modeling of Complex Salt Features in the Southern Gulf of Mexico

Table 3

Parameter values related with the 3D gravity data inversion procedure.

ParametersValues

Number of inverted parameters27,000
Number of observed data points2,601
Initial temperature1.0
Final temperature
Energy of the initial model33.484543
Energy of the final model0.0178259
Number of temperature reduction steps1,000
Reduction temperature factor0.98
Previous cycles to the parameter auto adjustment10
Cycles of thermal equilibrium5
Total number of tried models149,400,000
Number of accepted models115,281,390
Number of rejected models34,118,610