How thin is a thin bed? An alternative perspective

Leading Edge (Tulsa, OK)

Volumn 28, Issue 10, 2009, Pages 1192-1197

  Zeng, Hongliu ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN   (United States)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

SEISMOLOGY;

DATA QUALITY; MINIMUM DISTANCE; RAYLEIGH'S CRITERIA; RESOLUTION LIMITS; SEISMIC DATAS; THIN BED; WAVE FORMS;

OPTICAL VARIABLES MEASUREMENT;

COMPOSITE; DATA QUALITY; DETECTION METHOD; NANOCOMPOSITE; SEISMIC DATA; SEPARATION; WAVEFORM ANALYSIS; WAVELET ANALYSIS;

EID: 70350335560     PISSN: 1070485X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1190/1.3249773     Document Type: Article

References (5)

1. For Rayleigh's criterion please refer to Fundamentals of Optics by Jenkins and White (McGraw Hill, 1957).
2. The classic discussion of the seismic resolution limit was by Widess in "How thin is a thin bed?" (Geophysics, 1973)
3. and summarized in "The limits of resolution of zero-phase wavelets" by Kallweit and Wood (Geophysics, 1982).
4. For benefits of 90°-phase data in thin-bed interpretation, read "Interpretive advantages of 90°-phase wavelets, Part I: Modeling and Part II: Seismic applications" by Zeng and Backus (Geophysics, 2005).
5. SEG published the fourth edition of Sheriff's Encyclopedic Dictionary of Applied Geophysics in 2002. "Amplitude versus frequency - applications to seismic stratigraphy and reservoir characterization) by Zeng et al. (SEG 2000 Expanded Abstracts).