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Volume 71, Number 3
May-June 2006
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ISSN: 0016-8033
EISSN: 1942-2156

EDITOR’S CORNER

This issue of GEOPHYSICS
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GEOPHYSICS LETTERS

On the fundamentals of the virtual source method
Valeri Korneev; Andrey Bakulin
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CASE HISTORIES

Large-scale geophysical reconstruction of man-made ground at former industrial iron-furnace plantations
Bernd Kulessa; Beverly Chiarulli; Paul McCarthy; Susanne Haney; Kevin Jones
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Investigating the stratigraphy of an alluvial aquifer using crosswell seismic traveltime tomography
Geoff J. M. Moret; Michael D. Knoll; Warren Barrash; William P. Clement
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Induced-polarization detection and mapping of contaminant plumes
John A. Sogade; Francesca Scira-Scappuzzo; Yervant Vichabian; Weiqun Shi; William Rodi; David P. Lesmes; Frank Dale Morgan
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Multiconfiguration GPR measurements for geometric fracture characterization in limestone cliffs (Alps)
Mathieu Jeannin; Stéphane Garambois; Colette Grégoire; Denis Jongmans
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AMPLITUDE VARIATION WITH OFFSET (AVO) AND INTERPRETATION

Direct reservoir parameter estimation using joint inversion of marine seismic AVA and CSEM data
G. Michael Hoversten; Florence Cassassuce; Erika Gasperikova; Gregory A. Newman; Jinsong Chen; Yoram Rubin; Zhangshuan Hou; Don Vasco
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Use of AVOA data to estimate fluid indicator in a vertically fractured medium
Ranjit K. Shaw; Mrinal K. Sen
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AVO attribute inversion for finely layered reservoirs
Alexey Stovas; Martin Landrø; Per Avseth
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QVOA analysis: P-wave attenuation anisotropy for fracture characterization
Tatiana Chichinina; Vladimir Sabinin; Gerardo Ronquillo-Jarillo
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ANISOTROPY

VTI anisotropic corrections and effective parameter estimation after isotropic prestack depth migration
Moshe Reshef; Murray Roth
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Weak elastic anisotropy by perturbation theory
Vigen Ohanian; Thomas M. Snyder; José M. Carcione
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Nonhyperbolic moveout analysis in VTI media using rational interpolation
Huub Douma; Alexander Calvert
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Elastic impedance in weakly anisotropic media
Jorge L. Martins
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Effective elasticity of rocks with closely spaced and intersecting cracks
Vladimir Grechka; Mark Kachanov
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Seismic characterization of multiple fracture sets: Does orthotropy suffice?
Vladimir Grechka; Mark Kachanov
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ANNUAL MEETING SELECTIONS

3D surface-related multiple elimination: Data reconstruction and application to field data
Anatoly Baumstein; Mohamed T. Hadidi
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BOREHOLE GEOPHYSICS AND ROCK PROPERTIES

Ultrasonic borehole velocity imaging
Kenneth W. Winkler; Ralph D’Angelo
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Theory of borehole stability when drilling through salt formations
José M. Carcione; Hans B. Helle; Anthony F. Gangi
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ELECTRICAL AND ELECTROMAGNETIC METHODS

A new formula to compute apparent resistivities from marine magnetometric resistivity data
Jiuping Chen; Douglas W. Oldenburg
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Effects of spatially variable resolution on field-scale estimates of tracer concentration from electrical inversions using Archie's law
Kamini Singha; Steven M. Gorelick
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Outer-space sensitivities in geoelectrical tomography
Hansruedi Maurer; Sven Friedel
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Finite-difference modeling of magnetotelluric fields: Error estimates for uniform and nonuniform grids
Catherine de Groot-Hedlin
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2.5D resistivity modeling of embankment dams to assess influence from geometry and material properties
Pontus Sjödahl; Torleif Dahlin; Bing Zhou
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MMT forward modeling for a layered earth with arbitrary anisotropy
Changchun Yin
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Nonlinear electrical response of saturated shaley sand reservoir and its asymptotic approximations
Sri Niwas; Pravin K. Gupta; Olivar A. L. de Lima
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Fundamentals of the capacitive resistivity technique
Oliver Kuras; David Beamish; Philip I. Meldrum; Richard D. Ogilvy
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ENGINEERING AND ENVIRONMENTAL GEOPHYSICS

Model parameters of the nonlinear stiffness of the vibrator-ground contact determined by inversion of vibrator accelerometer data
Andrey V. Lebedev; Igor A. Beresnev; Pieter L. Vermeer
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Integration of diverse physical-property models: Subsurface zonation and petrophysical parameter estimation based on fuzzy c-means cluster analyses
Hendrik Paasche; Jens Tronicke; Klaus Holliger; Alan G. Green; Hansruedi Maurer
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GRAVITY EXPLORATION METHODS

Measuring gravity on ice: An example from Wanapitei Lake, Ontario, Canada
Hernan A. Ugalde; Elizabeth L’Heureux; Richard Lachapelle; Bernd Milkereit
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Automatic lineament extraction from potential-field images using the Radon transform and gradient calculation
Lili Zhang; Jiansheng Wu; Tianyao Hao; Jialin Wang
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Structural inversion of gravity data using linear programming
Tim van Zon; Kabir Roy-Chowdhury
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GROUND-PENETRATING RADAR

Ground-penetrating radar theory and application of thin-bed offset-dependent reflectivity
John H. Bradford; Jacob C. Deeds
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Reflectivity modeling of a ground-penetrating-radar profile of a saturated fluvial formation
William P. Clement; Warren Barrash; Michael D. Knoll
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Traveltime inversion of vertical radar profiles
William P. Clement; Michael D. Knoll
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MAGNETIC EXPLORATION METHODS

Joint inversion of gravity and magnetic data for two-layer models
Mark Pilkington
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MINING GEOPHYSICS

Quantifying total sulfide content of cores and cut-rock surfaces using thermal infrared reflectance
Jilu Feng; Benoit Rivard; E. Ann Gallie; Arturo Sanchez
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POROELASTICITY

A method for determining gas-hydrate or free-gas saturation of porous media from seismic measurements
Matthias Zillmer
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Determining capillary-pressure curve, pore-size distribution, and permeability from induced polarization of shaley sand
Maosong Tong; Li Li; Weinan Wang; Yizhong Jiang
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Attenuation and dispersion of P-waves in porous rocks with planar fractures: Comparison of theory and numerical simulations
Gracjan Lambert; Boris Gurevich; Miroslav Brajanovski
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RESERVOIR GEOPHYSICS

P-wave seismic attenuation by slow-wave diffusion: Effects of inhomogeneous rock properties
José M. Carcione; Stefano Picotti
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SEISMIC ATTRIBUTES AND PATTERN RECOGNITION

A filter to improve seismic discontinuity data for fault interpretation
Arthur E. Barnes
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SEISMIC INVERSION

Simultaneous inversion of PP and PS seismic data
Helene Hafslund Veire; Martin Landrø
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Multiscale deformable-layer tomography
Hua-wei Zhou
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Refraction tomography using a waveform-inversion back-propagation technique
Dong-Joo Min; Changsoo Shin
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Waveform inversion using a logarithmic wavefield
Changsoo Shin; Dong-Joo Min
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Bayesian time-lapse inversion
Arild Buland; Youness El Ouair
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SEISMIC MIGRATION

Highly accurate absorbing boundary conditions for wide-angle wave equations
A. Homayoun Heidari; Murthy N. Guddati
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Converted-wave azimuth moveout
Daniel A. Rosales; Biondo Biondi
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Improving explicit seismic depth migration with a stabilizing Wiener filter and spatial resampling
Gary F. Margrave; Hugh D. Geiger; Saleh M. Al-Saleh; Michael P. Lamoureux
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SEISMIC MODELING AND WAVE PROPAGATION

Block modeling and segmentally iterative ray tracing in complex 3D media
Tao Xu; Guoming Xu; Ergen Gao; Yingchun Li; Xianyi Jiang; Kaiyun Luo
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Exponential asymptotically bounded velocity model: Part I — Effective models and velocity transformations
Igor Ravve; Zvi Koren
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Exponential asymptotically bounded velocity model: Part II — Ray tracing
Igor Ravve; Zvi Koren
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Vertical propagation of low-frequency waves in finely layered media
Alexey Stovas; Børge Arntsen
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3D wavefield extrapolation with optimum split-step Fourier method
Linong Liu; Jianfeng Zhang
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SEISMIC VELOCITY/STATICS

CRP-based seismic migration velocity analysis
Weihong Fei; George A. McMechan
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First-break vertical seismic profiling tomography for Vinton Salt Dome
Hua-wei Zhou
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Straight-rays redatuming: A fast and robust alternative to wave-equation-based datuming
Tariq Alkhalifah; Claudio Bagaini
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SIGNAL PROCESSING

Inverse Q-filter for seismic resolution enhancement
Yanghua Wang
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Dip-scanning coherence algorithm using eigenstructure analysis and supertrace technique
Yandong Li; Wenkai Lu; Huanqin Xiao; Shanwen Zhang; Yanda Li
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Characterization of polarization attributes of seismic waves using continuous wavelet transforms
Mamadou S. Diallo; Michail Kulesh; Matthias Holschneider; Frank Scherbaum; Frank Adler
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Application of complex-trace analysis to seismic data for random-noise suppression and temporal resolution improvement
Hakan Karsli; Derman Dondurur; Günay Çifçi
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TUTORIALS

Two ways to quantify uncertainty in geophysical inverse problems
Alberto Malinverno; Robert L. Parker
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DISCUSSIONS

On “Theta map: Edge detection in magnetic data” (C. Wijns, C. Perez, and P. Kowalczyk, 2005, GEOPHYSICS, 71, L39–L43)
Xiong Li
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Reply to the discussion
Chris Wijns; Carlos Perez; Peter Kowalczyk
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DEPARTMENTS

ERRATA
“Short Note: On the calculation of P-SV conversion point for a dipping bed,” GEOPHYSICS, 71, T13–T16.
Alfredo Tada Guarín
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INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY
Intellectual Property
David A. Walker
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CONTRIBUTORS
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