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Seismic Imaging In Crystalline Terrains Of The Superior Province, Canada, Brian Villamizar
Seismic Imaging In Crystalline Terrains Of The Superior Province, Canada, Brian Villamizar
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The imaging of structures in sedimentary basins has typically been carried out using conventional seismic reflection techniques. In complex geological architectures, such as those within the Superior Province in Canada, conventional seismic imaging yields suboptimal results due to factors stemming from complex energy scattering and crooked seismic geometries. Full-waveform inversion (FWI) is a nonlinear inverse technique capable of retrieving quantitative images of velocity structures. Judicious data preconditioning, and multiscale inversion strategies allow FWI to effectively estimate velocity variations in the first few kilometers of the subsurface. Non-conventional seismic reflection processing, based on azimuthal binning and enhanced migration velocity models, improves …