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Identification of lateral discontinuities via multi-offset phase analysis of surface wave data.
| Title: | Identification of lateral discontinuities via multi-offset phase analysis of surface wave data. |
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| Authors: | Vignoli, Giulio, Cassiani, Giorgio |
| Source: | Geophysical Prospecting; May2010, Vol. 58 Issue 3, p389-413, 25p, 34 Graphs |
| Abstract: | Surface wave methods are based on the inversion of observed Rayleigh wave phase-velocity dispersion curves. The goal is to estimate mainly the shear-wave velocity profile of the investigated site. The model used for the interpretation is 1D, hence results obtained wherever lateral variations are present cannot be considered reliable. In this paper, we study four synthetic models, all with a lateral heterogeneity. When we process the entire corresponding seismograms with traditional f- k approach, the resulting 1D profiles are representative of the subsurface properties averaged over the whole length of the receivers lines. These results show that classical analysis disregards evidences of sharp lateral velocity changes even when they show up in the raw seismograms. In our research, we implement and test over the same synthetic models, a novel robust automated method to check the appropriateness of 1D model assumption and locate the discontinuities. This new approach is a development of the recent multi-offset phase analysis with the following further advantages: it does not need previous noise evaluation and more than one shot. Only once the discontinuities are clearly identified, we confidently perform classical f-k dispersion curve extraction and inversion separately on both sides of the discontinuity. Thus the final results, obtained by putting side by side the 1D profiles, are correct 2D reconstructions of the discontinuous S-wave distributions obtained without any additional ad-hoc hypotheses. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR] |
| Subject Terms: | SURFACE waves (Fluids), SEISMIC waves, RAYLEIGH waves, SEISMOMETRY, SEISMOLOGICAL research |
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| ISSN: | 00168025 |
| DOI: | 10.1111/j.1365-2478.2009.00838.x |
| Database: | Complementary Index |
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