Chapter 2: Basics of Reflection Seismology that Relate to Seismic Stratigraphy

Tom Wittick

North Texas Geological Society

...-phase wavelet. The top part of the figure shows the same lithology, but this time a nonzero-phase wavelet from a marine air gun was used. The wavelet...

Geometry of Supra-prism Basins of Southern Barbados Wedge

Huyghe, P., Morette, L., Griboulard, R Faugeres J. C. and Mugnier, J.L.

Geological Society of Trinidad & Tobago

... part of the Barbados Wedge was performed using original oceanographic data. These consisted of seismic reflection profiles using both air gun and high...

Basics of Reflection Seismic Technology

Abilene Geological Society

... wavelet. The top part of the figure shows the same lithology, but this time a nonzero-phase wavelet from a marine air gun was used. The wavelet...

Tertiary Geology and Principal Oil Fields of Burma

H. R. Tainsh

Tulsa Geological Society

... from multiple groups of sands, but modern practice is to produce the sands selectively by gun perforation. Spacing of wells is now about 500 feet...

Memorial: Charles Robert Hoyle, Sr. (1891-1954)

Roy P. Lehman

AAPG Non-Technical and Memorials

... was survived b y their three children—Charles Robert, Jr., meteorologist with the United States Air Force, E l Paso* Texas; William R., field engineer...

Memorial: Jack Kirby Larsen, Sr. (1919-1986)

Robey H. Clark

AAPG Non-Technical and Memorials

... telling a good story. In 1942, Jack enlisted in the Army Air Corps. By November 1943, he had become a B-17 pilot and was on his way to England. A few...

Extended Abstract: Mark Thompson (Statoil, Norway) Visits Vic/Tas-Branch and Shares His Knowledge about Ocean Bottom Seismic Surveys

PESA Staff

Petroleum Exploration Society of Australia (PESA)

..., each 4, 000 m long, spaced 75 m apart (Figs. 1,2 and 3). The source consisted of a single air gun a rray generating a s hot point interva l of 18.75 m...

Extended Abstract: A New Temporal Model for Eastern Gulf of Mexico Mesozoic Deposition

John Snedden, Drew Eddy, Gail Christeson, Harm van Avendonk, Hilary Olson, Patricia Ganey-Curry, Ian Norton

GCAGS Transactions

... lines, ocean-bottom seismometers at 12 km (7.5 mi) spacing recorded 150 m (492 ft) spaced air gun shots over >100 km (62 mi) offsets. Seismic...

An Image-Enhancing Oil Technique for Friable, Diatomaceous Rocks: RESEARCH METHOD PAPER

Charles E. Savrda, David J. Bottjer, Donn S. Gorsline

Journal of Sedimentary Research (SEPM)

... are crystallized salts. Bar scale in A is 3 cm long. End_Page 604------------------------ air (an all-purpose, hand-held "dust gun" commonly used for cleaning...

Active Margin: Depositional Sequences in the Castellon Area, Offshore Northeast Spain

D. R. Johns, M. A. Herber, and M. M. Schwander

AAPG Special Volumes

... caused abrupt lateral changes in paleobathymetry. GEOPHYSICAL DATA The migrated seismic lines (Figures 3A and 3B), shot with an air-gun energy source...

Section 3: Displays of Deismic Sections: The Eastern Aleutian Continental Margin

Roland von Huene, Michael Fisher, and John Miller

AAPG Special Volumes

... was recorded onboard the USGS research vessel S.P. Lee in 1977 with a GUS-4300 digital recording instrument. The seismic source was a tuned air-gun array...

Section 3: Displays of Seismic Sections: Convergent Margin Off East Coast of North Island, New Zealand, Parts I and II

F.J. Davey, K. Lewis, J.R. Childs, and M.A. Hampton

AAPG Special Volumes

... to the slope. SEISMIC REFLECTION DATA The seismic source consisted of five Bolt air guns in a tuned array that were shot at 2000 psi manifold pressure...

A Technique for Successive Cathodoluminescence and Reflected Light Petrography: RESEARCH METHOD PAPER

Jay M. Gregg, Musa Karakus

Journal of Sedimentary Research (SEPM)

... gun, C) epi-illuminator, D) light source for epi-illumination. FIG. 2. [Grey Scale] Sample from the Viburnum Trend MVT district showing...

Passive Seismic Techniques, by Bob Hardage, #40319 (2008)

Search and Discovery.com

Wavelet Processing

Lee Lu

Indonesian Petroleum Association

... done a much better job of bubble/ghost suppressions than the conventional deconvolution. Figure 2. (a) An example of 48 channel air gun data. (b...

Blocked Perforation Detection Using Arduino-Based Time-of-Flight Ultrasound Sensor

Brandan Tito Ramadhan, Vifaldi Agti, Andri, Jatmiko Endro Suseno

Indonesian Petroleum Association

... and the wellbore. Hydrocarbons flow into the well through the perforations. The perforating gun containing multiple shaped-charges is lowered...

Cross-Borehole Tomography in Development Geology: Part 7. Geophysical Methods

J. H. Justice, M. E. Mathisen, J. R. Bulau, A. A. Vassiliou

AAPG Special Volumes

... (electrical) -- Air gun (compressed air) -- Piezoelectric (pulsed or swept frequency) -- Hydraulic (vibratory) -- Pneumatic (vibratory) -- Chemical explosive...

Section 3: Displays of Seismic Sections: Aleutian Trench, Shumagin Segment, Seismic Section 104

Terry R. Bruns and Roland von Huene

AAPG Special Volumes

... recording instrument system. The seismic source was a tuned air-gun array with a 21.7-1 (1326-in.{3}) capacity and was operated at 2000 psi air pressure...

Late Cenozoic Stratigraphy of the Central Scotian Slope, Eastern Canada

David J.W. Piper, William R. Normark, Roy Sparkes

CSPG Bulletin

... is a single channel profile using a 40 cubic inch air gun. End_Page 2-------------------------- PREVIOUS STRATIGRAPHIC WORK The stratigraphic...

Late Quaternary Stratigraphy and Development of Tidal Sand Ridges in the Eastern Yellow Sea

Soo-Chul Park, Bang-Hee Lee, Hyuk-Soo Han, Dong-Geun Yoo, Chi-Won Lee

Journal of Sedimentary Research (SEPM)

... by Berne et al. (1998). In this study, we analyze a number of sediment cores and high-resolution seismic (air-gun and sparker) profiles from the eastern...

Geology of Mediterranean Shelf of Israel

A. Ginzburg , S. S. Cohen , H. Hay-Roe , A. Rosenzweig

AAPG Bulletin

... sequence, principally anhydrite. Deeper structure, mapped from air gun CDP records, confirms that multiple periods of folding, uplift, and erosion...

Carbonate Sediment Drifts in Northern Straits of Florida

Henry T. Mullins , A. Conrad Neumann , R. Jude Wilber , Albert C. Hine , Susan J. Chinburg

AAPG Bulletin

... 1980 1701 1717 64 10. (October) High-resolution, air-gun seismic reflection profiles from the northern Straits of Florida (water depths < 800 m) have...

Multichannel Seismic Operations for CCOP/SOPAC Cruise, Leg 3, Solomon Islands

D. M. Mann

Circum Pacific Council Publications

...) was discharged at an air pressure of 1,700 t o 2,000 psi (116-136 atmospheres). T i m i n g of the airguns was controlled b y a Litton Resources Systems...

Broad bandwidths reveal double the expected sediment depth in the Northern Carnarvon Basin

Jo Firth, Mark Stanley

Petroleum Exploration Society of Australia (PESA)

... to defocus the source ghost, so that it can be removed by designature. The firing of the guns is synchronized so that the deeper gun fires...

Chapter 8: Outcrop Characterization, 3-D Geological Modeling, and Upscaling for Reservoir Simulation of Jackfork Group Turbidites in the Hollywood Quarry, Arkansas, USA

J. Camilo Goyeneche, Roger M. Slatt, Alan J. Witten, Roger A. Young

AAPG Special Volumes

...), Global Positioning System (GPS), shallow, high-resolution seismic reflection, and GPS laser-gun positioning of geologic features in 3-D space. The west...