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Articles | Volume 18, issue 7
Articles | Volume 18, issue 7
https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-18-3231-2024
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https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-18-3231-2024
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Articles | Volume 18, issue 7
Brief communication
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16 Jul 2024
Brief communication |  | 16 Jul 2024

Brief communication: On the potential of seismic polarity reversal to identify a thin low-velocity layer above a high-velocity layer in ice-rich rock glaciers

Jacopo Boaga, Mirko Pavoni, Alexander Bast, and Samuel Weber

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https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-18-3231-2024-supplement

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Data fluela schafberg J. Boaga https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.11505034

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Reversal polarity is observed in rock glacier seismic refraction tomography. We collected several datasets observing this phenomenon in Switzerland and Italy. This phase change may be linked to interferences due to the presence of a thin low-velocity layer. Our results are confirmed by the modelling and analysis of synthetic seismograms to demonstrate that the presence of a low-velocity layer produces a polarity reversal on the seismic gather.
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