Shear wave splitting analysis of long-term data: Anisotropy studies in the Upper Rhine Graben area, Central Europe [Disputation]

Presentation slides of the disputation to the dissertation Shear wave splitting analysis of long-term data: Anisotropy studies in the Upper Rhine Graben area, Central Europe Yvonne Fröhlich, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Geophysical Institute, 2025-07-04. KITopen https://doi.org/10.5445/IR/1000183786. Related materials Geophysical Visualizations: https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.15836682 Geophysical Animations: https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.15641348 Related peer-reviewed journal articles Fröhlich Y, Grund M, Ritter J R R (2024). Lateral and vertical variations of seismic anisotropy in the lithosphere-asthenosphere system underneath Central Europe from long-term splitting measurements. Geophysical Journal International, 239(1):112-135. https://doi.org/10.1093/gji/ggae245. Ritter J R R, Fröhlich Y, Sanz Alonso Y, Grund M (2022). Short-scale laterally varying SK(K)S shear wave splitting at BFO, Germany – implications for the determination of anisotropic structures. Journal of Seismology, 26:1137-1156. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10950-022-10112-w, correction https://doi.org/10.1007/s10950-023-10136-w. Fröhlich Y, Grund M, Ritter J R R (2022). On the effects of wrongly aligned seismogram components for shear wave splitting analysis. Annals of Geophysics, 66(2). https://doi.org/10.4401/ag-8781.