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Controversial points in the methodology of modern interpretation theory of gravity anomalies and the ways to resolving contradictions

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The fact that most of the basic points in the methodology of interpretation theory of gravity anomalies are inadequate to the targeted intention—to extract the maximal volume of reliable information about the sources of the field—has barely been noticed so far. It is established that objectivation of the real possibilities of gravimetry in the particular conditions of interpretation is mainly blocked by the contradiction between the objective existence of a variety of a priori equivalent variants of the interpretation, on one hand, and the desire to describe its structure by a single element, the “optimal” solution of the inverse problem, on the other hand. A complete, to any extent, solution of the problem of reliability of the information retrieved from the gravimetry data can only be obtained in the case if the results of the interpretation contain the information about the properties of the studied object that is consistent with all the admissible solutions of the inverse problem. The informativity of conventional representations of the results of interpretation is assessed in comparison to the informativity of the alternative representations.

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Original Russian Text © P.I. Balk, 2014, published in Fizika Zemli, 2014, No. 2, pp. 199–210.

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Balk, P.I. Controversial points in the methodology of modern interpretation theory of gravity anomalies and the ways to resolving contradictions. Izv., Phys. Solid Earth 50, 192–202 (2014). https://doi.org/10.1134/S1069351314020025

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