Integrated magnetics: contributions to improved processing and interpretation of magnetic gradient tensor data, new methods for source location and estimation of magnetisation, and predictive magnetic exploration models

This thesis presents methods for processing and interpreting magnetic gradient tensor data, new approaches to estimation of source magnetisations from analysis of magnetic anomalies, and improved geological interpretation of magnetic surveys using magnetic petrological principles and predictive magnetic exploration models. The thesis emphasises the importance of an approach that integrates an understanding of the geological processes that create and destroy magnetic minerals with extra information obtained from magnetic gradient tensor data, and with petrophysical and palaeomagnetic information, to derive better geological models and to improve exploration success.