The significance of isotropic inversion of anisotropic surface-wave dispersion |
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| Authors: | S C Kirkwood |
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| Institution: | Department of Geophysics, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh EH9 3JZ |
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| Abstract: | Summary. The limitations of isotropic modelling in the inversion of anisotropic surface-wave phase velocities are examined. Inversion of synthetic dispersion data for some model ocean-basin structures is used to demonstrate that isotropic inversions can give inaccurate and misleading estimates of upper-mantle properties when anisotropy is present. |
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