Limitations
Like many fields in geology there exists many limitations and unanswered questions in seismic tomography. For example, it provides only the current velocity anomalies. We cannot see how the velocity structure has changed over earth’s history. It is also difficult to image slender structures due to the fact that long-wavelengths are easier to recover in such a survey.
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