Seismic Exploration of the Deep Continental Crust
Seismic Exploration of the Deep Continental Crust

Author: Dirk Gajewski

Publisher: Birkhäuser

Published: 2012-12-06

Total Pages: 371

ISBN-13: 3034886705

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DEKORP, the German continental reflection seismic program, was the major focus of deep seismic research in Germany in the 1980s and 1990s. The seismic sections provided fundamental new insight into deep geological structure of the European continent and the dynamics of continental formation. They formed the basis for worldwide comparative studies of orogenic structure. The complicated signature of the reflections from the deep crust indicated that new processing and interpretation techniques must be considered to better image the crystalline crust. Results of these efforts, including pre-stack migration, 3-D imaging, shear waves and seismic anisotropy, are presented in this special volume. In part, the articles open the perspective to new and future research. In part, they document research activity triggered by technical and interpretational questions raised by DEKORP field work and profiling results. Many of the presented methods can find immediate application in industrial seismic prospecting.

Continental Lithosphere
Continental Lithosphere

Author: Rolf Meissner

Publisher: American Geophysical Union

Published: 1991-01-08

Total Pages: 474

ISBN-13:

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Published by the American Geophysical Union as part of the Geodynamics Series, Volume 22. With the spirit of the Nibelungen lingering from the annual Richard Wagner Festival which had just ended, 200 scientists from 23 countries met at Bayreuth University, only a mile away from this historic and picturesque city, to renew their attack on old problems with Gaia.

Exploring the Earth's Crust
Exploring the Earth's Crust

Author: C. Prodehl

Publisher: Geological Society of America

Published: 2012

Total Pages: 784

ISBN-13: 0813712084

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"This volume contains a comprehensive, worldwide history of seismological studies of the Earth's crust using controlled sources from 1850 to 2005. Essentially all major seismic projects on land and the most important oceanic projects are covered. The time period 1850 to 1939 is presented as a general synthesis, and from 1940 onward the history and results are presented in separate chapters for each decade, with the material organized by geographical region. Each chapter highlights the major advances achieved during that decade in terms of data acquisition, processing technology, and interpretation methods. For all major seismic projects, the authors provide specific details on field observations, interpreted crustal cross sections, and key references. They conclude with global and continental-scale maps of all field measurements and interpreted Moho contours. An accompanying DVD contains important out-of-print publications and an extensive collection of controlled-source data, location maps, and crustal cross sections."--Publisher's description.

Basic Theory of Exploration Seismology
Basic Theory of Exploration Seismology

Author: John K. Costain

Publisher: Elsevier Science Limited

Published: 2004

Total Pages: 571

ISBN-13: 9780080370194

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The material in this volume provides the basic theory necessary to understand the principles behind imaging the subsurface of the Earth using reflection and refraction seismology. For reflection seismology, the end product is a "record section" from a collection of "wiggly traces" that are recorded in the field from which information about the properties of subsurface structure and rock can be derived. For the most part, the principles of imaging are the same regardless of the depth to the target; the same mathematical background is necessary for targeting a shallow water table as for investigating the base of the earth's continental "crust" at a depth of 30-50 km.