Seismic imaging of the Naga thrust using multiscale waveform inversion

GEOPHYSICS

Volumn 74, Issue 6, 2009, Pages

  Jaiswal, Priyank ^a   Zelt, Colin A ^a   Dasgupta, Rahul ^b   Nath, Kulendra K ^b  

^a RICE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b OIL INDIA LIMITED   (India)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FAULTING; LITHOLOGY; SEISMIC PROSPECTING; SEISMIC WAVES; WAVE PROPAGATION;

CONJUGATE FAULTS; EXPLORATORY WELLS; NORTHEAST INDIA; PRESTACK DEPTH MIGRATION; SEISMIC IMAGING; STRUCTURAL FEATURE; WAVEFORM INVERSION; WAVEFORM MODELING;

WAVEFORM ANALYSIS;

DATA INTERPRETATION; DATA INVERSION; FOLD BELT; IMAGING METHOD; SEISMIC DATA; SEISMIC REFLECTION; SEISMOLOGY; THRUST FAULT; TRAVEL TIME; WAVEFORM ANALYSIS;

INDIA;

EID: 84861183553     PISSN: 00168033     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1190/1.3158602     Document Type: Article

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