Towards an integrated inversion of geoscientific data: What price of geology?

Tectonophysics

Volumn 490, Issue 3-4, 2010, Pages 294-306

  Jessell, Mark W ^a,b   Ailleres, Laurent ^c   de Kemp, Eric A ^d  

^a OBSERVATOIRE MIDI PYRÉNÉES   (France)

^b Environmental Research Observatory (ORE) HYBAM Centre IRD d'Ile de France   (France)

^c MONASH UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^d GEOLOGICAL SURVEY OF CANADA   (Canada)

Author keywords

3D modelling; Geophysics; Inversion; Misfit functions; Structural geology

Indexed keywords

3D MODELLING; 3D MODELS; DATA SETS; GEOLOGIC CONDITIONS; GEOLOGICAL DATA; GEOLOGICAL MODELS; GEOPHYSICAL METHODS; GEOSCIENTIFIC DATA; HARD ROCKS; IMPLICIT SURFACES; INVERSION; INVERSION SCHEME; PRIMARY DATA; ROCK PROPERTIES; ROCK TYPES; STRUCTURAL DATA; THREE-DIMENSIONAL MODEL; VOLUMETRIC MODELS;

GEOLOGIC MODELS; GEOPHYSICS; THREE DIMENSIONAL;

STRUCTURAL GEOLOGY;

DATA INVERSION; GEOPHYSICAL METHOD; HARD ROCK; STRUCTURAL GEOLOGY; THREE-DIMENSIONAL MODELING;

EID: 77954952634     PISSN: 00401951     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.tecto.2010.05.020     Document Type: Article

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