Limitations on Resolution of Seismic Reflections and Geologic Detail Derivable from Them: Section 1. Fundamentals of Stratigraphic Interpretation of Seismic Data

Robert E. Sheriff

AAPG Special Volumes

... acoustic impedance. If the incident angle is small (up to, perhaps, 20°), the departure from this simple relation is small. Most reflection seismology...

Reflection Response of Class Two Reservoirs, by Diana Sava1 and Bob Hardage, #40246 (2007).

Search and Discovery.com

Improving Depth Prediction Accuracy of Quantified Drilling Hazards

W. Scott Leaney, William H. Borland

Geological Society of Malaysia (GSM)

...-l (5) i=l 1- ri-l If the reflection coefficients are small, then this recursive product can be approximated by an exponentiated integration...

Assessing mineral composition and permeability of a shale seal

Roman Beloborodov, Marina Pervukhina, Maxim Lebedev, Juerg Hauser

Petroleum Exploration Society of Australia (PESA)

...71, Mechanisms Controlling the Permeability of Clays. Clays and Clay Minerals 19. Rüger, A., 1997, P-Wave Reflection Coefficients for Transversely Isotrop...

DAS noise attenuation using wavelet stack

Zhou Yu, Zhaojun Liu, Ge Zhan, Peng Cheng, Bin Wang, Weihong Fei

International Meeting for Applied Geoscience and Energy (IMAGE)

... subsurface information. It is the noise for reflection seismology and can significantly degrade the quality of the image. This noise is high amplitude...

The Petrology of Some Pennsylvanian Black "Shales"

Charles E. Payton, Leo A. Thomas

Journal of Sedimentary Research (SEPM)

.... The siltstones have an average mineral composition within the range of sub-graywacke to graywacke. Sorting coefficients range from 1.9 to 4.3...

ABSTRACT: Geostatistical Shale Models for a Deltaic Reservoir Analog: From 3D GPR Data to 3D Flow Modeling; #90013 (2003)

HONGMEI LI, CHRISTOPHER D. WHITE

Search and Discovery.com

.... WHITE AAPG Search and Discovery Article #90013©2003 AAPG Annual Meeting, May 11-14, 2003, Salt Lake City, Utah AAPG Annual Convention Salt Lake.City...

New Seismic Method in Populated Areas (A Case Study in the Surabaya Area, East Java, Indonesia)

Suyitno Patmosukismo, A. Syahbuddin, G. Alameda

Indonesian Petroleum Association

... of 1971–1975 detected the deep normal structures. To map the shallow prospects, a high resolution seismic reflection survey was conducted by using...

Application of a Probability Model to Detect Unrecognised Igneous Intrusions in Sedimentary Basins

Simon Holford, Mark Bunch, Nick Schofield, Michael Curtis

Australian Petroleum Production & Exploration Association (APPEA) Journal

... (and reflection coefficients) for comparison. Synthetic seismogram comprises a Ricker wavelet displayed using European polarity convention...

Seismic Models of a Shelf-margin Depositional Sequence: Upper San Andres Formation, Last Chance Canyon, New Mexico

Jan Stafleu , Mark D. Sonnenfeld

Journal of Sedimentary Research (SEPM)

... and plane-wave reflection coefficients-the resulting sections are remarkably similar (Fig. 10). These similarities reflect the relatively low dips within...

Jurassic deep-water reservoirs at a transfer-transform offset: Modeling the mixed carbonate-siliciclastic Shelburne subbasin, southeastern Canadian margin

Justin Nagle, David J. W. Piper, E. Marfisi, Georgia Pe-Piper, and F. Saint-Ange

AAPG Bulletin

... that sand can be found in deep water, even for very small values of water discharge, sand diffusion coefficients, and climate sensitivity (HEST values...

Relative Impedance Inversion of Seismic Traces by Means of Complex Trace Attributes (CTA Inversion) … 40 Years On!, #42179 (2018).

Kurt Grubbe, Sean McQuaid

Search and Discovery.com

... of reflection coefficients with a zero-phase wavelet (Robertson and Nogami, 1984; Robertson and Fisher, 1988). They found a significant and unique...

Interpretation of the Origin and Diagenesis of Pleistocene Chalk, Eniwetok Atoll, Marshall Islands

Patricia E. Videtich , Edward L. Tremba

Journal of Sedimentary Research (SEPM)

... limited studies have been made on "chalks" from Pacific atolls. "White chalky fine-grained, very friable limestone" and shells and corals that are altered...

Three-dimensional seismic-based definition of fault-related porosity development: TrentonBlack River interval, Saybrook, Ohio

Justine A. Sagan, Bruce S. Hart

AAPG Bulletin

... of reflection amplitudes in the area. These features have been interpreted as a response to faulting at depth and the resulting brecciation, dissolution...

Frequency-constraint strong reflection separation based on matching pursuit algorithm

Yanmei Xiong, Meng Wang, Bohua Zhu

International Meeting for Applied Geoscience and Energy (IMAGE)

... application show that this method can separate the strong reflection event more reasonably and effectively, and the underlying small scale fracture-cavity...

Seismic Stratigraphy and Structure of the Lower Paleozoic, Central Alberta Lithoprobe Transect

James R. Dietrich

CSPG Bulletin

...-flattened on an Upper Cretaceous (Second White Specks) reflection marker, the most continuous seismic event in the shallow part of the section. Section...

Seismic Stratigraphy of the Quintong Depression, Jiangsu Province, China

Hu Zhen-Zhong

Circum Pacific Council Publications

... is small. The wedge-shaped chaotic-reflection facies has revealed that multi-channel streams of water entered the deep depression and formed an alluvial fan...

Creating Singularity Order Attribute of Seismic Signals Using Continuous Wavelet Transform (CWT) for Stratigraphic Interpretation Tools

A.M. Ustad, M.S. Jaya, F.J. Herrman

Indonesian Petroleum Association

... and singularity “accumulation”. Its applicability on seismic reflection data is limited because of the relatively small number of scales present in the seismic...

Comments on Calculation of Diffusion Coefficients from Hydrocarbon Concentration Profiles in Rocks: GEOLOGIC NOTE

Michele Moisio Thomas

AAPG Bulletin

...Comments on Calculation of Diffusion Coefficients from Hydrocarbon Concentration Profiles in Rocks: GEOLOGIC NOTE Michele Moisio Thomas 1989 787 791...

Multipole borehole acoustics in the presence of an constraints elastic tool

Tim Geerits, Stefan Schimschal, Anna Swiatek

International Meeting for Applied Geoscience and Energy (IMAGE)

... the reflection coefficients at the tool/borehole fluid and borehole fluid/formation interface, respectively. Furthermore,   Zm , Zm    I m , Km...

Know Before You Go!

Lars Zühlsdorff, Trond Haugland

GEO ExPro Magazine

.... This means, rock models can indicate how reflection coefficients are changing in response to production. It is recommended that rock models are calibrated...

Role of Turbidity Currents in Setting the Foreset Slope of Clinoforms Prograding into Standing Fresh Water

Svetlana Kostic, Gary Parker, Jeffrey G. Marr

Journal of Sedimentary Research (SEPM)

... the foreset and bottomset deposits, the latter consisting almost entirely of white silt, with a small admixture of some of the flake-like particles of black...

Chapter Two: Color, Character and Zero-Phaseness

Alistair R. Brown

AAPG Special Volumes

...–41. Simm, R. W., and R. E. White, 2002, Phase, polarity and the interpreter’s wavelet: First Break, v. 20, p. 277–281. Taner, M. T., and R. E...

An enhanced method for evaluating the static connectivity of reservoirs using pressure coefficient–depth plots

Geng Qian, Haifeng Yang, Dayong Guan, Jinghan Wang, Junpei Yue, and Meng Zhao

AAPG Bulletin

... coefficients against depth. For a given fluid unit, the pressure coefficients show an inversely proportional relationship with depth. The graph depicts...

Magnetotelluric inversion strategies

Ralf Schaa*, Brett Harris, Andrew Pethick

Petroleum Exploration Society of Australia (PESA)

... in the west (Figure 1). The MT data was acquired alongside deep seismic reflection survey data, which we incorporated as structural constraints in inversion...