Joint inversions of three types of electromagnetic data explicitly constrained by seismic observations: results from the central Okavango Delta, Botswana

The Okavango Delta of northern Botswana is one of the world’s largest inland deltas or megafans. To obtain information on the character of sediments and basement depths, audio-magnetotelluric (AMT) ...

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