Reply by the author to Th. Krey
I am grateful to Th. Krey for his derivation of formula (14) which is valid for the two‐dimensional case and which clearly shows what is actually obtained when subjecting primary reflections in neighbouring shot records to, what I called in the subject note, the process of normal wave stacking. Krey’s formula (14) confirms that the amplitude loss of primary shot record reflections, that is due to geometrical spreading, is removed by the normal wave stack as I stated in my short note. However, the formula also shows that the resulting event in the normal wave stack section does not, as I implied, provide a true amplitude reflection, which was correctly defined in my previous paper (Hubral, 1983) and in Krey’s short note (Krey, 1983). I am satisfied to see that Krey’s formula (14) however indicates that primary reflections in a normal wave stack section can very easily be transformed to the desired accurate true amplitude reflections with two simple corrections only.