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Don’t Forget Your Shear Waves
- Publisher: European Association of Geoscientists & Engineers
- Source: Conference Proceedings, 79th EAGE Conference and Exhibition 2017, Jun 2017, Volume 2017, p.1 - 5
Abstract
Summary
Converted shear wave processing is often not routinely performed when processing 3-component Vertical Seismic Profile data. Shear energy can surprisingly occur when the source receiver offset is relatively small, and or when there is only a small amount of dip on reflectors. A number of VSP example datasets will be presented to demonstrate where 3-component processing delivers both valuable P and S-wave products. The examples illustrate that S-waves are a vital part of good 3-component VSP processing and are actually a bi-product of the P-wave processing.
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