The use of spectral recomposition in tailored forward seismic modeling of outcrop analogs

American Association of Petroleum Geologists Bulletin

Volumn 94, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 457-474

  Tomasso, Mark ^a   Bouroullec, Renaud ^b   Pyles, David R ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WYOMING   (United States)

^b Department of Geology and Geological Engineering   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FREQUENCY DOMAIN ANALYSIS; STRATIGRAPHY;

FREQUENCY CONTENTS; FREQUENCY DOMAINS; FREQUENCY SPECTRA; PEAK FREQUENCIES; REAL-WORLD IMAGE; SPECTRAL DECOMPOSITION; SPECTRAL FREQUENCY; VARIABLE FREQUENCIES;

SEISMOLOGY;

GEOMETRY; IMAGING METHOD; OUTCROP; SEISMIC METHOD; SEISMIC STRATIGRAPHY; SPECTRAL ANALYSIS;

EID: 77951700700     PISSN: 01491423     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1306/08240909051     Document Type: Article

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