Abstract
The inverse problem of seismology is formulated as follows.
Adapted from Geophys. J. R. Astr. Soc., 13:223–234 (1967).
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Keilis-Borok, V.I., Yanovskaya, T.B. (1972). Inverse Problems of Seismology (Structural Review). In: Keilis-Borok, V.I., Flinn, E.A. (eds) Computational Seismology. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4684-8815-9_14
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