Integrating high-resolution refraction data into near-surface seismic reflection data processing and interpretation

Geophysics

Volumn 63, Issue 4, 1998, Pages 1339-1347

  Miller, Kate C ^a   Harder, Steven H ^a   Adams, Donald C ^a   O'Donnell, Terry ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT EL PASO   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

REFRACTION; SEISMIC WAVES; SEISMOLOGY; STRATIGRAPHY; SURFACE WAVES; VELOCITY; DATA PROCESSING; GEOLOGICAL SURVEYS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; REFLECTION;

GEOLOGIC FEATURES; INTERVAL VELOCITY; NEAR SURFACE VELOCITY MODEL; REFLECTED ENERGY; SEISMIC PROFILES; SEISMIC REFLECTION DATA; SEISMIC REFLECTION PROFILES; SHALLOW STRUCTURE; TURNING RAY TOMOGRAPHY;

DATA HANDLING; SEISMIC PROSPECTING;

DATA PROCESSING; SEISMIC REFLECTION;

EID: 0032124699     PISSN: 00168033     EISSN: 19422156     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1190/1.1444435     Document Type: Article

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