Articles | Volume 11, issue 2
https://doi.org/10.5194/se-11-419-2020
https://doi.org/10.5194/se-11-419-2020
Research article
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31 Mar 2020
Research article |  | 31 Mar 2020

Towards plausible lithological classification from geophysical inversion: honouring geological principles in subsurface imaging

Jérémie Giraud, Mark Lindsay, Mark Jessell, and Vitaliy Ogarko

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