**7. Conclusions**

In this study, we have introduced and investigated the applicability and the performance of the R-parameter imaging method in elucidating distinctive physical parameters (*A*, *z*o, *x*o, *q*) of simple geometrically-shaped geologic structures (spheres, horizontal cylinders and vertical cylinders) from gravity data along profiles. This inversion imaging method has been demonstrated successfully on numerically generated gravity anomalies corrupted with random noise, applied to cases of anomalies from multiple and interfering structures and finally experimented on a two different field cases for salt domes in USA. The approach presented here can be used to investigate salt domes and perform reconnaissance geological studies.
