Construction of a relative geologic time (RGT) volume is vital to seismic geomorphological and sedimentological interpretation. Seismic instantaneous phase unwrapping provides an excellent approach for generating an RGT volume. Although several 2D or 3D seismic phase unwrapping results have been published, there is a clear need for discussions on concrete methods for seismic phase unwrapping. W...

In order to mitigate against possible impacts of seismic surveys on baleen whales it is important to know as much as possible about the presence of whales within the vicinity of seismic operations. This study expands on previous work that analyzes single seismic streamer data to locate nearby calling baleen whales with a grid search method that utilizes the propagation angles and relative arriv...

a r t i c l e i n f o The purpose of this study is to analytically predict and to experimentally investigate the seismic response of adjacent filled parallel rock fractures with dissimilar properties (e.g., fracture thickness and stiffness). The time-domain recursive method is extended to predict that a P-wave propagates normally across the filled parallel fractures using the specific stiffness...

Determination of the internal stability of reinforced soil walls under earthquake conditions is an important part of seismic design. The horizontal method of slices is used for determining internal stability or for tieback analysis of the reinforced soil wall. A pseudo-dynamic method is adopted in the present analysis, which considers the effect of phase difference in both the shear and primary...

Since the collapse of the Dolomieu crater floor at Piton de la Fournaise Volcano (la Réunion) in 2007, hundreds of seismic signals generated by rockfalls have been recorded daily at the Observatoire Volcanologique du Piton de la Fournaise (OVPF). To study rockfall activity over a long period of time, automated methods are required to process the available continuous seismic records. We present ...

Seismic reservoir characterization aims to transform obtained seismic signatures into reservoir properties such as lithofacies and pore fluids. We propose a Markov chain Monte Carlo (McMC) workflow consistent with geology, well‐logs, seismic data and rock‐physics information. The workflow uses a multiple‐point geostatistical method for generating realizations from the prior distribution...

When structures are subjected to strong ground motion excitations, structural elements may be prone to yielding, and consequently experience significant levels of inelastic behavior. The effects of inelastic behavior on the distribution of peak floor loads are not explicitly accounted for in current seismic code procedures. During recent years, many studies have been conducted to develop new de...

In this abstract, we propose a multiscale fusion technique to enhance seismic geometric attributes, such as dip and curvature, which are very sensitive to noise present in seismic data. For a give seismic section, first, we construct a Gaussian pyramid that allows us to generate the seismic attribute at different resolutions (scales). Then, all attributes at the different scales are fused toget...

Hilbert–Huang transform (HHT) is a popular method to analyze nonlinear and non-stationary data. It has been widely used in geophysical prospecting. This paper analyzes the mode mixing problems of empirical mode decomposition (EMD) and introduces the noncontact measurement and detection of instantaneous seismic attributes using complementary ensemble empirical mode decomposition (CEEMD). Numeric...

Introduction Traditionally, the analysis of seismic data involved looking for continuous events on seismic data, from which structural and stratigraphic features could be mapped. However, we are also interested in mapping discontinuous features such as faults and fractures. A method for identifying these discontinuities was first introduced by Bahorich and Farmer (1995) and called the coherency...