Effects of salt-related mode conversions on subsalt prospecting

Geophysics

Volumn 61, Issue 2, 1996, Pages 331-348

  Ogilvie, Jeff S ^a   Purnell, Guy W ^b  

^a Texaco Exploration and Production Inc   (United States)

^b Texaco Inc Houston   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

SALT/SEDIMENT INTERFACE; SEISMIC SURVEY; SUBSALT PROSPECTING; WAVE CONVERSION; WAVE EQUATION MODELLING;

GULF OF MEXICO, MISSISSIPPI CANYON;

ALGORITHMS; GEOLOGICAL SURVEYS; INTERFACES (MATERIALS); SALINE WATER; SEDIMENTS; SEISMIC WAVES; THREE DIMENSIONAL; DATA HANDLING; SEISMOLOGY;

COMMON MIDPOINT; ELASTIC WAVE EQUATION; MISSISSIPPI CANYON AREA; SALT RELATED MODE CONVERSION; SEISMIC REFLECTION SURVEYS; SIMULATED SEISMIC SURVEY; SUBSALT PROSPECTING;

SEISMIC PROSPECTING; SUBSALT STRATA;

3D SEISMIC DATA; COMMON MID POINTS; CONVERTED WAVE; GULF OF MEXICO; MISSISSIPPI CANYON; MODE CONVERSIONS; SEISMIC REFLECTION SURVEY; SEISMIC SURVEYS;

EID: 0029667409     PISSN: 00168033     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1190/1.1443962     Document Type: Article

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