Lithology-derived structure classification from the joint interpretation of magnetotelluric and seismic models

Geophysical Journal International

Volumn 170, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 737-748

  Bedrosian, P A ^a,d   Maercklin, N ^b   Weckmann, U ^a   Bartov, Y ^c   Ryberg, T ^a   Ritter, O ^a  

^a GFZ GERMAN RESEARCH CENTRE FOR GEOSCIENCES   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NAPLES FEDERICO II   (Italy)

^c GEOLOGICAL SURVEY OF ISRAEL   (Israel)

^d U S GEOLOGICAL SURVEY   (United States)

Author keywords

Electrical resistivity; Geostatistics; Magnetotellurics; Seismic structure; Seismic velocity; Tomography

Indexed keywords

CORRELATION; ELECTRICAL RESISTIVITY; GEOLOGICAL STRUCTURE; GEOSTATISTICS; LITHOLOGY; MAGNETOTELLURIC METHOD; SEISMIC METHOD; SEISMIC TOMOGRAPHY; SEISMIC VELOCITY; VELOCITY STRUCTURE;

EID: 34547214820     PISSN: 0956540X     EISSN: 1365246X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-246X.2007.03440.x     Document Type: Article

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