New tools for seismic stratigraphie interpretation: Strata! convergence and instantaneous isochron attribute cubes derived from volumetric flattening of experimental strata

AAPG Bulletin

Volumn 93, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 453-459

  Lomask, Jesse ^a   Francis, Jason M ^a   Rickett, James ^a,b   Buursink, Marc L ^a   Gerber, Thomas P ^a   Perlmutter, Martin ^a,c   Paola, Chris ^d  

^a CHEVRON ENERGY TECHNOLOGY COMPANY   (United States)

^b Seismic imaging Research and Development Team

^c Department Reservoir Prediction Team for Chevron ^*  (Australia)

^d UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DIAGNOSTIC VALUE; FULL VOLUME; SEDIMENT ACCUMULATION; SEISMIC ATTRIBUTES; SEISMIC DATAS; SEISMIC VOLUMES; SPATIAL ASSOCIATIONS;

SEISMOLOGY;

ACCUMULATION RATE; ALGORITHM; BASIN FILL; CONVERGENCE; SEISMIC DATA; SEISMIC REFLECTION; SEISMIC STRATIGRAPHY;

EID: 65949084276     PISSN: 01491423     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1306/11200808104     Document Type: Article

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