Artefacts of isotropic inversion applied to magnetotelluric data from an anisotropic Earth

Geophysical Journal International

Volumn 187, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 677-689

  Miensopust, Marion P ^a,b   Jones, Alan G ^a  

^a DUBLIN INSTITUTE FOR ADVANCED STUDIES   (Ireland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MÜNSTER   (Germany)

Author keywords

Electrical anisotrophy; Electrical properties; Electromagnetic theory; Geomagnetic induction; Magnetotelluric

Indexed keywords

ELECTRICAL ANISOTROPHY; ELECTRICAL PROPERTY; ELECTROMAGNETIC THEORIES; GEOMAGNETIC INDUCTION; MAGNETOTELLURIC;

ELECTRIC FIELDS; ELECTRIC PROPERTIES; GEOMAGNETISM; MAGNETOTELLURICS;

ANISOTROPY;

ARTIFACT; COMPARATIVE STUDY; DATA INVERSION; DECOMPOSITION ANALYSIS; DIKE SWARM; ELECTRICAL PROPERTY; ELECTROMAGNETIC SURVEY; GEOMAGNETIC FIELD; ISOTROPY; LITHOSPHERIC STRUCTURE; LOWER CRUST; MAGNETOTELLURIC METHOD; MANTLE STRUCTURE; TWO-DIMENSIONAL MODELING;

BOTSWANA;

EID: 80054705583     PISSN: 0956540X     EISSN: 1365246X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-246X.2011.05157.x     Document Type: Article

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