scholarly journals Permeability and porosity images based onP-wave surface seismic data: Application to a south Florida aquifer

2006 ◽  
Vol 42 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Jorge O. Parra ◽  
Chris L. Hackert ◽  
Michael W. Bennett
2020 ◽  
Vol 91 (4) ◽  
pp. 2127-2140 ◽  
Author(s):  
Glenn Thompson ◽  
John A. Power ◽  
Jochen Braunmiller ◽  
Andrew B. Lockhart ◽  
Lloyd Lynch ◽  
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Abstract An eruption of the Soufrière Hills Volcano (SHV) on the eastern Caribbean island of Montserrat began on 18 July 1995 and continued until February 2010. Within nine days of the eruption onset, an existing four-station analog seismic network (ASN) was expanded to 10 sites. Telemetered data from this network were recorded, processed, and archived locally using a system developed by scientists from the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) Volcano Disaster Assistance Program (VDAP). In October 1996, a digital seismic network (DSN) was deployed with the ability to capture larger amplitude signals across a broader frequency range. These two networks operated in parallel until December 2004, with separate telemetry and acquisition systems (analysis systems were merged in March 2001). Although the DSN provided better quality data for research, the ASN featured superior real-time monitoring tools and captured valuable data including the only seismic data from the first 15 months of the eruption. These successes of the ASN have been rather overlooked. This article documents the evolution of the ASN, the VDAP system, the original data captured, and the recovery and conversion of more than 230,000 seismic events from legacy SUDS, Hypo71, and Seislog formats into Seisan database with waveform data in miniSEED format. No digital catalog existed for these events, but students at the University of South Florida have classified two-thirds of the 40,000 events that were captured between July 1995 and October 1996. Locations and magnitudes were recovered for ∼10,000 of these events. Real-time seismic amplitude measurement, seismic spectral amplitude measurement, and tiltmeter data were also captured. The result is that the ASN seismic dataset is now more discoverable, accessible, and reusable, in accordance with FAIR data principles. These efforts could catalyze new research on the 1995–2010 SHV eruption. Furthermore, many observatories have data in these same legacy data formats and might benefit from procedures and codes documented here.


2007 ◽  
Author(s):  
Frederic Roggero ◽  
Didier Yu Ding ◽  
Philippe Berthet ◽  
Olivier Lerat ◽  
Julien Cap ◽  
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2014 ◽  
Vol 2 (4) ◽  
pp. T255-T271 ◽  
Author(s):  
Roderick Perez Altamar ◽  
Kurt Marfurt

Differentiating brittle and ductile rocks from surface seismic data is the key to efficient well location and completion. Brittleness average estimates based only on elastic parameters are easy to use but require empirical calibration. In contrast, brittleness index (BI) estimates are based on mineralogy laboratory measurements and, indeed, cannot be directly measured from surface seismic data. These two measures correlate reasonably well in the quartz-rich Barnett Shale, but they provide conflicting estimates of brittleness in the calcite-rich Viola, Forestburg, Upper Barnett, and Marble Falls limestone formations. Specifically, the BI accurately predicts limestone formations that form fracture barriers to be ductile, whereas the brittleness average does not. We used elemental capture spectroscopy and elastic logs measured in the same cored well to design a 2D [Formula: see text] to brittleness template. We computed [Formula: see text] and [Formula: see text] volumes through prestack seismic inversion and calibrate the results with the [Formula: see text] template from well logs. We then used microseismic event locations from six wells to calibrate our prediction, showing that most of the microseismic events occur in the brittle regions of the shale, avoiding more ductile shale layers and the ductile limestone fracture barriers. Our [Formula: see text] to brittleness template is empirical and incorporates basin- and perhaps even survey-specific correlations of mineralogy and elastic parameters through sedimentation, oxygenation, and diagenesis. We do not expect this specific template to be universally applicable in other mudstone rock basins; rather, we recommend interpreters generate similar site-specific templates from logs representative of their area, following the proposed workflow.


Author(s):  
Maxim I. Protasov ◽  
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Vladimir A. Tcheverda ◽  
Valery V. Shilikov ◽  
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The paper deals with a 3D diffraction imaging with the subsequent diffraction attribute calculation. The imaging is based on an asymmetric summation of seismic data and provides three diffraction attributes: structural diffraction attribute, point diffraction attribute, an azimuth of structural diffraction. These attributes provide differentiating fractured and cavernous objects and to determine the fractures orientations. Approbation of the approach was provided on several real data sets.


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