Joint inversion of long-period magnetotelluric data and surface-wave dispersion curves for anisotropic structure: Application to data from Central Germany

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 38, Issue 5, 2011, Pages

  Roux, E ^a,b   Moorkamp, M ^b,c   Jones, A G ^a   Bischoff, M ^d   Endrun, B ^e   Lebedev, S ^a   Meier, T ^f  

^a DUBLIN INSTITUTE FOR ADVANCED STUDIES   (Ireland)

^b INSTITUT DE CIÈNCIES DEL MAR   (Spain)

^c GEOMAR HELMHOLTZ CENTRE FOR OCEAN RESEARCH KIEL   (Germany)

^d RUHR UNIVERSITY BOCHUM   (Germany)

^e UNIVERSITY OF POTSDAM   (Germany)

^f UNIVERSITY OF KIEL   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; ANISOTROPIC MEDIA; DISPERSION (WAVES); MAGNETOTELLURICS; SEISMOLOGY; SURFACE WAVES;

ANISOTROPIC LAYERS; ANISOTROPIC MODELS; ANISOTROPIC STRUCTURE; DATA SETS; DEEP STRUCTURE; ELECTRICAL ANISOTROPY; FAST AXIS; GERMANY; INTERNAL STRUCTURE; ISOTROPIC STRUCTURE; JOINT INVERSION; MAGNETOTELLURIC DATA; PHYSICAL PARAMETERS; SURFACE WAVE DISPERSION;

ANISOTROPY;

ANISOTROPY; ASTHENOSPHERE; DATA SET; DISPERSION; GENETIC ALGORITHM; LITHOSPHERE; MAGNETOTELLURIC METHOD; SEISMIC ANISOTROPY; SURFACE WAVE;

GERMANY;

EID: 79952671495     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2010GL046358     Document Type: Article

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