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On the nonuniqueness of receiver function inversions
Abstract
To study the resolving power of teleseismic P waveforms for receiver structure, we model synthetic waveforms using a time domain waveform inversion scheme beginning with a range of initial models to estimate the range of acceptable velocity structures. To speed up the waveform inversions, we implement Randall's (1989) efficient algorithms for calculating differential seismograms and include a smoothness constraint on all the resulting velocity models utilizing the “jumping” inversion technique of Shaw and Orcutt (1985). We present the results of more than 235 waveform inversions for one‐dimensional velocity structures that indicate that the primary sensitivity of a receiver function is to high wavenumber velocity changes, and a depth‐velocity product, not simply velocity. The range of slownesses in a typical receiver function study does not appear to be broad enough to remove the depth‐velocity ambiguity; the inclusion of a priori information is necessary. We also present inversion results for station RSCP, located in the Cumberland Plateau, Tennessee. Our results are similar to those from a previous study by Owens et al. (1984) and demonstrate the uncertainties in the resulting velocity estimate more clearly.
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Metadata
- Authors
- Ammon, C. J., Randall, G. E., & Zandt, G.
- Venue
- Journal of Geophysical Research: Solid Earth
- Publisher
- American Geophysical Union (AGU)
- Published
- 1990-09-10
- Volume
- 95
- Issue
- B10
- Pages
- 15303-15318
- ISSN
- 0148-0227 (ISSN-L)
- OpenAlex
- W2153806527
- Cited by
- 800
- References
- 11
- FWCI
- 4.65
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- closed
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