Notes on geoelectrics

Unlike practical science - electrical prospecting, geoelectrics is regarded as a fundamental science, which sets the task of an honest, reliable study of the objective reality - the Earth. Since observation of electromagnetic fields is possible only on/above the Earth in a limited number of sites wi...

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Date:2012
Main Author: Rokityansky, I. I.
Format: Article
Language:Russian
Published: S. Subbotin Institute of Geophysics of the NAS of Ukraine 2012
Online Access:https://journals.uran.ua/geofizicheskiy/article/view/116777
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Journal Title:Geofizicheskiy Zhurnal

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Summary:Unlike practical science - electrical prospecting, geoelectrics is regarded as a fundamental science, which sets the task of an honest, reliable study of the objective reality - the Earth. Since observation of electromagnetic fields is possible only on/above the Earth in a limited number of sites with limited accuracy, the conclusions of geoelectrics are always ambiguous. Providing only a single solution, especially resulting from the use of regularization, can lead to false conclusions, and regarded as a manipulation of facts, that discredits both the authors and the whole science of geoelectrics. So, many products of inversion (especially 2D) should be regarded not as a well proven geological result but as one of possible transformation of response functions.