简介：TheGarouaZoneinNorthCameroon,thesubjectofthisstudy,isknowntohaveundergonetectonicmovementsduringtheCretaceous,butthezone’sstructuraldataremainpoorlyknown.ThisstudyexploitstheBougueranomalytoimproveknowledgeofGarouatectonicsstructures.Inordertocharacterizethesestructures,twomethodsareused:Euler’sdeconvolutionmethodandthemethodofthehorizontalgradientoftheverticalderivative.SuperpositionoftheEuler’ssolutionsmapforindexN=1withthemapfromthehorizontalgradientoftheverticalderivativemethodallowsdeterminationofgravimetriclineaments,interpretedasfaultsoraslinearcontacts,fromwhichwededuceastructuralmapofthestudyarea.Basedonthismap,weidentifysixteenlineaments,ofwhichwecounteightaslinearcontactsandeightasfaults.Amongthefaults,wedenoteoneofdepthbetween4and8km,fivefaultsofdepthrangingbetween8and13km,andtwofaultsofdepthsbetween13and36km.Analysisofthesefaultsshowsthatthesevendeepestfaultsmightpresentanaturalriskinourstudyarea.Forpurposesofcivilprotection,suchdeepfaultsshouldbemonitoredandtakenintoconsiderationintheimplementationoflargepublicworks.Thestructuralmap,establishedhereinfromdataonthein-depthextensionofeachfault,thusincreasesscientificknowledgeintheareathatcanbeusedtositepublicworksinwaysthatreducerisk.