Abstract
One of the main problems in geophysics is how to produce a consistent
and reliable model of a given geophysical/geological system, integrating
independent data sets with different physical meaning, acquisition
scale, resolution power, quality and so on. This situation is frequent
in the thrust belt environment, especially when the quality of near
vertical reflection seismic data is low: in this case many efforts
are made to apply alternative geophysical tools, such as wide angle
seismic, magnetotelluric and gravity methods. In this paper we present
a possible approach to managing the integration of many data sets
to produce a final consistent geophysical model. The real-life case
of an exploration survey performed in Southern Italy, in the Southern
Apennines, is considered as an example of the approach. This is presented
as a series of sequential steps giving a corresponding series of
'partial models' converging into a final geophysical model, but it
is much more appropriate to consider the methodology as a circular
and iterative process, which is more consistent with an approach
to a complex domain.
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