This paper describes the present situation of magnetotelluric researches abroad, emphatically sums up the situation of 2D magnetotelluric inversion studies, and enumerates the inversion methods currently commonly used in foreign countries. The development trend of magnetotelluric inversion interpretation is also discussed in this paper.
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