Gulf Of Mexico Multi Fold Seismic Reflection Program: A Status Report

1977 ◽  
Author(s):  
J. Lamar Worzel ◽  
C.A. Burk ◽  
Joel S. Watkins
1975 ◽  
Author(s):  
Joel S. Watkins ◽  
J. Lamar Worzel ◽  
John S. Ladd ◽  
Richard S. Hey

Science ◽  
1975 ◽  
Vol 187 (4179) ◽  
pp. 834-836 ◽  
Author(s):  
J. S. Watkins ◽  
J. L. Worzel ◽  
M. H. Houston ◽  
M. Ewing ◽  
J. B. Sinton

Geophysics ◽  
1987 ◽  
Vol 52 (12) ◽  
pp. 1708-1714 ◽  
Author(s):  
Joseph O. Ebeniro ◽  
Yosio Nakamura ◽  
Dale S. Sawyer

The presence of shallow, tectonized salt is a major impediment to exploration efforts in many sedimentary basins, including the northern Gulf of Mexico. The salt there forms a shallow tongue of high‐velocity material emplaced between lower‐velocity Tertiary and Quaternary sediments. Using conventional seismic reflection techniques, explorationists often have difficulty identifying the base of the salt tongue. Only in a very few instances (e.g., Buffler, 1983; Buffler et al., 1978; Watkins et al., 1978) have they been able to identify the base of the shallow salt. Interfaces below the salt are even more rarely observed.


Geophysics ◽  
1989 ◽  
Vol 54 (5) ◽  
pp. 563-569 ◽  
Author(s):  
David Y. Wang ◽  
Douglas W. McCowan

We have developed a method for the spherical divergence correction of seismic reflection data based on normal moveout and stacking of cylindrical slant stacks. The method is illustrated on some Gulf of Mexico data. The results show that our method yields essentially the same traveltime information as does conventional processing. Our amplitudes, however, are more interpretable in terms of reflectivity than are those obtained by using an empirical spherical divergence correction.


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