Seismic Refraction Prospecting

Seismic Refraction Prospecting
Author: Society of Exploration Geophysicists
Publisher:
Total Pages: 628
Release: 1967
Genre: Science
ISBN:

This volume is a compilation of the newer techniques of refraction seismic surveying. It contains a series of articles written principally by members of SEG who are specialist in refraction techniques. The volume contains only new materials with a bibliography of references to other refraction materials available. The majority of the papers are of a "technique type" which describe some particular interpretation technique that may be used for better interpretation of special refraction data.

Seismic Refraction Prospecting

Seismic Refraction Prospecting
Author: Albert W. Musgrave
Publisher:
Total Pages: 604
Release: 1967
Genre: Seismic prospecting
ISBN: 9781560802679

The papers in this volume describe various techniques for separating out special raypath solutions and making approximations that give us a structural geologic picture from the study of these approximations or specializations.

Basic Seismic Refraction Survey and Data Interpretation Techniques (Penerbit USM)

Basic Seismic Refraction Survey and Data Interpretation Techniques (Penerbit USM)
Author: Rosli Saad
Publisher: Penerbit USM
Total Pages: 111
Release: 2018
Genre: Seismic prospecting
ISBN: 9674612416

Basic Seismic Refraction Survey and Data Interpretation Techniques This book is written to impart knowledge on seismic refraction method, which covers data acquisition, processing and interpretation techniques. The discussion in this book is about seismic waves and their characteristics, theory of seismic refraction and field procedures. Examples of seismic refraction data and simple calculation are also provided to enable readers to better visualize and aid their understanding on the seismic refraction method. Rosli Saad is currently a lecturer at School of Physics, Universiti Sains Malaysia, Pulau Pinang with 30 years of experience in geophysics. His expertises is in the areas of Ground Penetrating Radar (GPR), gravity, magnetic, seismic and electrical methods. His main research is in engineering and environmental studies. He has published three research book chapters, four research books and more than 250 journal papers. Recently, he was appointed as head of geophysics section at the Centre of Tropical Geoengineering (GEOTROPIK), Universiti Teknologi Malaysia.

Seismic Imaging: a Practical Approach

Seismic Imaging: a Practical Approach
Author: Jean-Luc Mari
Publisher:
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2021
Genre: Science
ISBN: 9782759823512

In the geophysics of oil exploration and reservoir studies, the surface seismic method is the most commonly used method to obtain a subsurface model in 2 or 3 dimensions. This method plays an increasingly important role in soil investigations for geotechnical, hydrogeological and site characterization studies regarding seismic hazard issues. The goal of this book is to provide a practical guide, using examples from the field, to the application of seismic methods to surface imaging. After reviewing the current state of knowledge in seismic wave propagation, refraction and reflection seismic methods, the book aims to describe how seismic tomography and fullwave form inversion methods can be used to obtain seismic images of the subsurface. Through various synthetic and field examples, the book highlights the benefit of combining different sets of data: refracted waves with reflected waves, and body waves with surface waves. With field data targeting shallow structures, it shows how more accurate geophysical models can be obtained by using the proposed hybrid methods. Finally, it shows how the integration of seismic data (3D survey and VSP), logging data (acoustic logging) and core measurements, combined with a succession of specific and advanced processing techniques, enables the development of a 3D high resolution geological model in depth. In addition to these examples, the authors provide readers with guidelines to carry out these operations, in terms of acquisition, as well as processing and interpretation. In each chapter, the reader will find theoretical concepts, practical rules and, above all, actual application examples. For this reason, the book can be used as a text to accompany course lectures or continuing education seminars. This book aims to promote the exchange of information among geologists, geophysicists, and engineers in geotechnical fields.

Seismic Methods

Seismic Methods
Author: Michel Lavergne
Publisher: Editions OPHRYS
Total Pages: 200
Release:
Genre:
ISBN: 9782710810643

A Handbook for Seismic Data Acquisition in Exploration

A Handbook for Seismic Data Acquisition in Exploration
Author: Brian J. Evans
Publisher: SEG Books
Total Pages: 319
Release: 1997
Genre: Science
ISBN: 1560800410

This illustration-rich book explains seismic data acquisition operations from a fundamental and practical standpoint, ranging from land to marine 2D methods to 3D seismic methods. Helpful to geologists, field crews, exploration managers, petroleum engineers, and geophysicists, each chapter concludes with exercises on field data recording problems.

Velocities in Reflection Seismology

Velocities in Reflection Seismology
Author: Jean-Pierre Cordier
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
Total Pages: 228
Release: 1985-09-30
Genre: Nature
ISBN: 9789027720245

Although considera bIe efforts are now being made to find new sources of energy, alI the experts are agreed that hydrocarbons will have to provide the greater part of our energy needs for a generation ahead. Exploration for and production of hydrocarbons therefore pose a serious problem for our future, as much for the quantitative satisfaction of our requirements as for our search for self-sufficiency in energy. As a direct result of improvements in technology throughout the world, geophysics has progressively enlarged its field of influence in the realms of exploration and production. But amongst the various geophysical methods available, seismic reflection has gradually become accepted as the basic tool of the oiI prospector. Reflection seismology has reached and consolidated this position because it has shown itself to be capable of adapting to the increasing complexity of the requirements of exploration. Initially directed towards geometric mapping of the sub-surface, it became the means of detection of structural traps in geotectonically quiescent regions, and thereafter in increasingly complex surroundings. It has enabled us to clothe the structural framework with a lithology, initially approximate, but becoming more and more precise, assisting the explorer to locate stratigraphic traps. Further developments enable us under favourable circumstances to estimate the quality of the deposits and to detect the presence of fluids and of their interfaces; it then becomes an unrivalled tool for the producer, both in the development of deposits and in the application of enhanced recovery methods.