Imaging a shallow aquifer in temperate glacial sediments using seismic reflection profiling with DMO processing

Geophysics

Volumn 63, Issue 4, 1998, Pages 1248-1256

  Bradford, John H ^a   Sawyer, Dale S ^a   Zelt, Colin A ^a   Oldow, John S ^b  

^a RICE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF IDAHO   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AQUIFERS; GLACIAL GEOLOGY; ITERATIVE METHODS; SEISMIC WAVES; SEISMOLOGY; STRATIGRAPHY; VELOCITY; WATER WELLS; APPROXIMATION THEORY; FINITE DIFFERENCE METHOD; IMAGE ANALYSIS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; SEDIMENTS;

FINITE DIFFERENCE MODEL; GLACIAL SEDIMENTS; SEATTLE , WASHINGTON; SEDIMENTARY STRATA; SEISMIC REFLECTION PROFILES; SEISMIC REFLECTIONS; VELOCITY ANALYSIS; VELOCITY STRUCTURE; COMMON MIDPOINT (CMP) ANALYSIS; DIP MOVEOUT (DMO) VELOCITY ANALYSIS;

IMAGE PROCESSING; SEISMIC PROSPECTING;

AQUIFER; GROUNDWATER EXPLORATION; SEISMIC REFLECTION; SEISMIC SURVEY;

EID: 0032124687     PISSN: 00168033     EISSN: 19422156     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1190/1.1444426     Document Type: Article

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