Magnetotelluric inversion for anisotropic conductivities in layered media

Physics of the Earth and Planetary Interiors

Volumn 158, Issue 2-4, 2006, Pages 139-158

  Pek, Josef ^a   Santos, Fernando A M ^b  

^a GEOPHYSICAL INSTITUTE   (Czech Republic)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LISBON   (Portugal)

Author keywords

Anisotropic conductor; Inverse problem; Layered medium; Magnetotelluric method; Occam inversion; Regularization

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; ANISOTROPY; ELECTRIC CONDUCTIVITY; GRADIENT METHODS; INVERSE PROBLEMS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS;

ANISOTROPIC CONDUCTOR; LAYERED MEDIUM; MAGNETOTELLURIC METHOD; OCCAM INVERSION; REGULARIZATION;

STRUCTURAL GEOLOGY;

ALGORITHM; ANISOTROPY; CRUST; ELECTRICAL CONDUCTIVITY; INVERSE PROBLEM; INVERSION LAYER; LAYERED MEDIUM; MAGNETOTELLURIC METHOD; MODELING; UPPER MANTLE;

EURASIA; EUROPE; PORTUGAL; SOUTHERN EUROPE;

EID: 33748503393     PISSN: 00319201     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.pepi.2006.03.023     Document Type: Article

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