The limitations of isotropic modelling in the inversion of anisotropic surface-wave phase velocities are examined. Inversion of synthetic dispersion data for some model ocean-basin structures is used to demonstrate that isotropic inversions can give inaccurate and misleading estimates of upper-mantle properties when anisotropy is present.
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