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Volume 71, Number 5
September-October 2006
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ISSN: 0016-8033
EISSN: 1942-2156

EDITOR’S CORNER

This issue of GEOPHYSICS
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TECHNICAL PAPERS

GEOPHYSICS LETTERS
Delineating a shallow fault zone and dipping bedrock strata using multichannal analysis of surface waves with a land streamer
Julian Ivanov; Richard D. Miller; Pierre Lacombe; Carole D. Johnson; John W. Lane, Jr.
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Regularizing seismic inverse problems by model reparameterization using plane-wave construction
Sergey Fomel; Antoine Guitton
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CASE HISTORIES
Synthetic and field-based electrical imaging of a zerovalent iron barrier: Implications for monitoring long-term barrier performance
Lee Slater; Andrew Binley
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Mapping fractures with GPR: A case study from Turtle Mountain
Ulrich Theune; Dean Rokosh; Mauricio D. Sacchi; Douglas R. Schmitt
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Rock property- and seismic-attribute analysis of a chert reservoir in the Devonian Thirty-one Formation, west Texas, U.S.A.
Dongjun (Taller) Fu; E. Charlotte Sullivan; Kurt J. Marfurt
View articletitled, Rock property- and seismic-attribute analysis of a chert reservoir in the Devonian Thirty-one Formation, west Texas, U.S.A.
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Volume-based curvature computations illuminate fracture orientations — Early to mid-Paleozoic, Central Basin Platform, west Texas
Charles H. Blumentritt; Kurt J. Marfurt; E. Charlotte Sullivan
View articletitled, Volume-based curvature computations illuminate fracture orientations — Early to mid-Paleozoic, Central Basin Platform, west Texas
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AVO AND INTERPRETATION
Wavefield and AVO modeling using elastic thin-slab method
Xian-Yun Wu; Ru-Shan Wu
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Small-angle AVO response of PS-waves in tilted transversely isotropic media
Jyoti Behura; Ilya Tsvankin
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Stochastic inversion of pressure and saturation changes from time-lapse AVO data
Helene Hafslund Veire; Hilde Grude Borgos; Martin Landrø
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ANISOTROPY
Focal mechanisms produced by shear faulting in weakly transversely isotropic crustal rocks
Václav Vavryčuk
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The influence of crack shape on the effective elasticity of fractured rocks
Vladimir Grechka; Ivan Vasconcelos; Mark Kachanov
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Anisotropic geometrical-spreading correction for wide-azimuth P-wave reflections
Xiaoxia Xu; Ilya Tsvankin
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Characterization of layered anisotropic media from prestack PS-wave-reflection data
Jason E. Gumble; James E. Gaiser
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ANNUAL MEETING SELECTIONS
Linearized amplitude variation with offset (AVO) inversion with supercritical angles
Jonathan E. Downton; Charles Ursenbach
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A new iterative solver for the time-harmonic wave equation
C. D. Riyanti; Y. A. Erlangga; R.-E. Plessix; W. A. Mulder; C. Vuik; C. Oosterlee
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BOREHOLE GEOPHYSICS AND ROCK PROPERTIES
Drill-bit displacement-source model: Source performance and drilling parameters
Flavio Poletto; Cinzia Bellezza
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A multiscale study of the mechanisms controlling shear velocity anisotropy in the San Andreas Fault Observatory at Depth
Naomi L. Boness; Mark D. Zoback
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ELECTRICAL AND ELECTROMAGNETIC METHODS
A limited-memory quasi-Newton inversion for 1D magnetotellurics
Anna Avdeeva; Dmitry Avdeev
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Electrical and petrophysical modeling of Ferron Sandstone data
Robert B. Szerbiak; George A. McMechan; Craig Forster; Stephen H. Snelgrove
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Decomposition of electromagnetic fields into upgoing and downgoing components
Lasse Amundsen; Lars Løseth; Rune Mittet; Svein Ellingsrud; Bjørn Ursin
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Finite-difference simulation of borehole EM measurements in 3D anisotropic media using coupled scalar-vector potentials
Junsheng Hou; Robert K. Mallan; Carlos Torres-Verdín
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The origin of the observed low-frequency electrical polarization in sandstones
Julian B. T. Scott
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3D modeling of a deepwater EM exploration survey
G. Michael Hoversten; Gregory A. Newman; Nathan Geier; Guy Flanagan
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A survey of current trends in near-surface electrical and electromagnetic methods
Esben Auken; Louise Pellerin; Niels B. Christensen; Kurt Sørensen
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Petrophysical inversion of borehole array-induction logs: Part II — Field data examples
Carlos Torres-Verdín; Faruk O. Alpak; Tarek M. Habashy
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Low-frequency dielectric dispersion and microwave dielectric properties of dry and water-saturated limestones of Jodhpur region
R. J. Sengwa; A. Soni
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ENGINEERING AND ENVIRONMENTAL GEOPHYSICS
Enhanced interpretation of magnetic survey data from archaeological sites using artificial neural networks
David. J. Bescoby; Gavin C. Cawley; P. Neil Chroston
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Tomographic imaging of permafrost using three-component seismic cone-penetration test
Anne-Marie LeBlanc; Richard Fortier; Calin Cosma; Michel Allard
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3D seismic refraction traveltime tomography at a groundwater contamination site
Colin A. Zelt; Aron Azaria; Alan Levander
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GEOPHYSICAL SOFTWARE AND ALGORITHMS
Calculation of magnitude magnetic transforms with high centricity and low dependence on the magnetization vector direction
Daniela Gerovska; Marcos J. Araúzo-Bravo
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GRAVITY EXPLORATION METHODS
Gravity inversion of basement relief and estimation of density contrast variation with depth
João B. C. Silva; Denis C. L. Costa; Valéria C. F. Barbosa
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GROUND-PENETRATING RADAR
Time-domain inversion of GPR data containing attenuation due to conductive losses
Qingyun Di; Meigen Zhang; Maioyue Wang
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MAGNETIC EXPLORATION METHODS
Interactive 2D magnetic inversion: A tool for aiding forward modeling and testing geologic hypotheses
Valeria C. F. Barbosa; João B. C. Silva
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Testing the use of aeromagnetic data for the determination of Curie depth in California
Hannah E. Ross; Richard J. Blakely; Mark D. Zoback
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RESERVOIR GEOPHYSICS
Fractured reservoirs: An analysis of coupled elastodynamic and permeability changes from pore-pressure variation
T. M. Daley; M. A. Schoenberg; J. Rutqvist; K. T. Nihei
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Spatial orientation and distribution of reservoir fractures from scattered seismic energy
Mark E. Willis; Daniel R. Burns; Rama Rao; Burke Minsley; M. Nafi Toksöz; Laura Vetri
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Joint estimation of porosity and saturation using stochastic rock-physics modeling
Ran Bachrach
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Porosity inference and classification of siliciclastic rocks from multiple data sets
Luiz G. L. Loures; Fernando S. Moraes
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SEISMIC ATTRIBUTES AND PATTERN RECOGNITION
3D volumetric multispectral estimates of reflector curvature and rotation
Saleh Al-Dossary; Kurt J. Marfurt
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SEISMIC DATA ACQUISITION
A reusable implosive seismic source for midwater or seafloor use
LeRoy M. Dorman; Allan W. Sauter
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SEISMIC INVERSION
Bayesian lithology/fluid prediction and simulation on the basis of a Markov-chain prior model
Anne Louise Larsen; Marit Ulvmoen; Henning Omre; Arild Buland
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SEISMIC MIGRATION
3D common-reflection-point-based seismic migration velocity analysis
Weihong Fei; George A. McMechan
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Wave-equation-based seismic illumination analysis
Xiao-Bi Xie; Shengwen Jin; Ru-Shan Wu
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Adaptive multiple subtraction using independent component analysis
Wenkai Lu
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Efficient 3D wave-equation migration using virtual planar sources
Bertrand Duquet; Patrick Lailly
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Prestack scalar reverse-time depth migration of 3D elastic seismic data
Robert Sun; George A. McMechan; Chen-Shao Lee; Jinder Chow; Chen-Hong Chen
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SEISMIC MODELING AND WAVE PROPAGATION
Velocity rays for heterogeneous anisotropic media: Theory and implementation
Einar Iversen
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An expanding-wavefront method for solving the eikonal equations in general anisotropic media
Yue Wang; Tamas Nemeth; Robert T. Langan
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Numerical analysis of a narrow-angle, one-way, elastic-wave equation and extension to curvilinear coordinates
D. A. Angus; C. J. Thomson
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Quick and accurate Q parameterization in viscoelastic wave modeling
Stig Hestholm; Stephen Ketcham; Roy Greenfield; Mark Moran; George McMechan
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Modeling the scalar wave equation with Nyström methods
Jing-Bo Chen
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SEISMIC VELOCITY/STATICS
Regularization and datuming of seismic data by weighted, damped least squares
Robert J. Ferguson
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SIGNAL PROCESSING
Instantaneous polarization attributes based on an adaptive approximate covariance method
Mamadou Sanou Diallo; Michail Kulesh; Matthias Holschneider; Kristina Kurennaya; Frank Scherbaum
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A 2D multistage median filter to reduce random seismic noise
Cai Liu; Yang Liu; Baojun Yang; Dian Wang; Jianguo Sun
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Measures of scale based on the wavelet scalogram with applications to seismic attenuation
Hongbing Li; Wenzhi Zhao; Hong Cao; Fengchang Yao; Longyi Shao
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Computation of dips and azimuths with weighted structural tensor approach
Yi Luo; Yuchun Eugene Wang; Nasher M. AlBinHassan; Mohammed N. Alfaraj
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Amplitude preservation of Radon-based multiple-removal filters
Ethan J. Nowak; Matthias G. Imhof
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Q(z) model building using walkaway VSP data
Rafael Guerra; Scott Leaney
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Multicomponent wave separation using HOSVD/unimodal-ICA subspace method
Valeriu D. Vrabie; Nicolas Le Bihan; Jérôme I. Mars
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DEPARTMENTS

DISCUSSION AND REPLY
On “The gravitational attraction of a right rectangular prism with density varying with depth following a cubic polynomial” (Juan García-Abdeslem, 2005, GEOPHYSICS, 71, 1793–1804)
V. Chakravarthi; N. Sundararajan
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Reply to the discussion
Juan García-Abdeslem
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On “Wavelet denoising of aeromagnetic data” (George E. Leblanc and William A. Morris, 2001, GEOPHYSICS, 71, 1793–1804)
M. Fedi; T. Quarta
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Reply to the discussion
G. E. Leblanc; W. A. Morris
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On “Delayed-shot 3D depth migration” (Yu Zhang, James Sun, Carl Notfors, Samuel H. Gray, Leon Chernis, and Jerry Young, 2005, GEOPHYSICS, 71, E21–E28)
Christof Stork; Jerry Kapoor
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Yu Zhang; James Sun; Carl Notfors; Samuel H. Gray; Leon Chernis; Jerry Young
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Response to the reply
Christof Stork; Jerry Kapoor
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INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY
Intellectual Property
David A. Walker
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CONTRIBUTORS
Contributors
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DEDICATION

This issue of GEOPHYSICS is dedicated to Gérard C. Herman
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