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Volume 5 Number 4
  • E-ISSN: 1365-2478

Abstract

ABSTRACT

The progress in the registration of refraction shots obtained in the last years permits a more systematic study of the secondary arrivals. In zones with disturbed tectonics, a noticeable portion of the received energy derives from diffraction phenomena caused by velocity anomalies in the marker bed or in the overburden (faults, local heterogeneities). Some characteristic examples are presented and schematically explained.

A more advanced analysis of the branches of the travel time curve caused by diffraction leads, in favourable cases, to a new method of calculating the offsets and the vertical velocities, independent of the usual methods for the determination of these parameters.

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2006-04-27
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