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It has been known for a long time that minerals and many sedimentary and crystalline rocks are elastically anisotropic. Due to geodynamic processes and/or action of the gravity field, many rock samples show strong fabrics. Crystallographic axes of minerals are for instance frequently aligned to particular petrofabric structures. Such structures can in turn produce a seismic anisotropy which is observable by direction-dependent velocities or by other seismic anomalies related to the wave polarization.
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Babuska, V., Cara, M. (1991). Conclusions and outlook. In: Seismic Anisotropy in the Earth. Modern Approaches in Geophysics, vol 10. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-011-3600-6_7
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