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Possibilities and problems of modern magnetotellurics

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Approaches to the solution of three-dimensional inverse problems are considered in the paper. The main methods for regularization of inverse problems of electromagnetic sounding are reviewed. Basic scenarios of three-dimensional and multicriterion interpretation are considered.

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  2. University of Utah, Salt Lake City, USA

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Original Russian Text © M.N. Berdichevsky, V.I. Dmitriev, M.S. Zhdanov, 2010, published in Fizika Zemli, 2010, No. 8, pp. 4–11.

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Berdichevsky, M.N., Dmitriev, V.I. & Zhdanov, M.S. Possibilities and problems of modern magnetotellurics. Izv., Phys. Solid Earth 46, 648–654 (2010). https://doi.org/10.1134/S1069351310080021

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