Abstract The gravity aspects (Marussi tensor, gravity invariants, their special ratio, strike angles, and virtual deformations) have been tested and proven as efficient to describe various geological features and stresses in the Earth (impact craters, volcanoes, ground water or hydrocarbon deposits). Here, we utilise the gravity strike angles to check known localities and extend existing terrestrial estimates (coming mainly from the USGS) of hydrocarbon occurrences in Ukraine, Crimea, and the Black Sea. The agreement between terrestrial and satellite data is good. Our method is completely independent of any traditional approach. It is a remote sensing method providing a preliminary, cheap indicative approach to identify density/porosity anomalies that may be responsible for further hydrocarbon occurrences in those areas.
Klokočník et al. (2026) studied this question.