**6. Discussion**

The proposed method of R-parameter imaging technique was deployed to visualizes the salt dome anomalies from the gravity data measured across a 2D profile. The method fitting the anomaly of the measured gravity profile by a single geometric shape body (sphere & cylinder). Such as the spherical source (*q* = 1.5)

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suggestion based on the maximum R-parameter (R-max = 0.99) of the Humble dome anomaly (**Figure 10**) and the approximated horizontal cylinder (*q* = 0.9) with maximum R-parameter (R-max = 0.96) of the Louisiana dome anomaly (**Figure 11**).

The obtained results by the R-parameter method of the Humble dome anomaly was compared with other results in the published literature (**Table 7**) and confirmed with drilling to insure the depth to the top of the buried anomaly (**Table 8**). For the Louisiana dome anomaly, the obtained results by R-parameter approach was compared with the pervious published literature and weighted by the misfit error between the observed and calculated anomaly for the different techniques used (**Table 10**) to increase the efficiency of the proposed method.

In over all the obtained results using the R-parameter method to investigate the salt dome anomalies is good and acceptable in the two given field examples.
