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Volume 83, Number 5
September 2018
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ISSN: 0016-8033
EISSN: 1942-2156

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This issue of Geophysics
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Geophysics Letters

Artifact-free reverse time migration
Lele Zhang; Evert Slob; Joost van der Neut; Kees Wapenaar
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Quaternion-based anisotropic inversion for flexural waves in horizontal transverse isotropic formations with unmatched sources: A synthetic example
Fuqiang Zeng; Wenzheng Yue; Chao Li
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Physical bounds on C13 and δ for organic mudrocks
Tatiana Chichinina; Lev Vernik
View articletitled, Physical bounds on <em>C</em><sub>13</sub> and <span class="inline-formula no-formula-id"><span class="mathFormula"></span><math xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML"><mrow xmlns=""><mi>δ</mi></mrow></math></span> for organic mudrocks
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Case Histories

CSEM-regularized seismic velocity inversion: A multiscale, hierarchical workflow for subsalt imaging
Daniele Colombo; Diego Rovetta; Ersan Turkoglu
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Coupling geomechanical modeling with seismic pressure prediction
Mahdi Heidari; Maria A. Nikolinakou; Peter B. Flemings
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Geophysical helicopter-based magnetic methods for locating wells
Vladislav Kaminski; Richard W. Hammack; William Harbert; Garret A. Veloski; James Sams; D. Greg Hodges
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Seismic resolution enhancement in shale-oil reservoirs
Xiwu Liu; Fengxia Gao; Yuanyin Zhang; Ying Rao; Yanghua Wang
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Microseismic insights into the fracturing behavior of a mature reservoir in the Pembina field, Alberta
Thomas S. Eyre; Mirko van der Baan
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Anisotropy

Full-waveform inversion in acoustic orthorhombic media and application to a North Sea data set
Nabil Masmoudi; Tariq Alkhalifah
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Experimental investigation of the effects of clay content and compaction stress on the elastic properties and anisotropy of dry and saturated synthetic shale
Fei Gong; Bangrang Di; Jianxin Wei; Pinbo Ding; He Li; Dingyuan Li
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On the application of the Eshelby-Cheng effective model in a porous cracked medium with background anisotropy: An experimental approach
Jose Jadsom S. de Figueiredo; Murillo J. S. do Nascimento; Emilia Hartmann; Bruce F. Chiba; Carolina Barros da Silva; Matias C. de Sousa; Crislene Silva; Leo Kirchhof Santos
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Borehole Geophysics

Development of a directional resistivity logging-while-drilling tool using a joint-coil antenna and its geosteering applications
Zhong Wang; Huaping Wang; Treston Davis; Jing Li; Suming Wu; Wei Ren; Richard Ce Liu
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Thermal conductivity of sandstones from Biot’s coefficient
Tobias Orlander; Eirini Adamopoulou; Janus Jerver Asmussen; Adam Andrzej Marczyński; Harald Milsch; Lisa Pasquinelli; Ida Lykke Fabricius
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Electrical and Electromagnetic Methods

The mimetic multiscale method for Maxwell’s equations
Wenke Wilhelms; Christoph Schwarzbach; Luz Angélica Caudillo-Mata; Eldad Haber
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Induced polarization response of porous media with metallic particles — Part 7: Detection and quantification of buried slag heaps
Youzheng Qi; Abdellahi Soueid Ahmed; André Revil; Ahmad Ghorbani; Feras Abdulsamad; Nicolas Florsch; Jeremy Bonnenfant
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A volume-surface integral approach for direct current resistivity problems with topography
Zhengyong Ren; Huang Chen; Jingtian Tang; Feng Zhou
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Comparison of different dielectric models to calculate water saturation and estimate textural parameters in partially saturated cores
Vasileios-Marios Gkortsas; Lalitha Venkataramanan; Kamilla Fellah; David Ramsdell; Chang-Yu Hou; Nikita Seleznev
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A hybrid solver based on the integral equation method and vector finite-element method for 3D controlled-source electromagnetic method modeling
Rong Liu; Rongwen Guo; Jianxin Liu; Changying Ma; Zhenwei Guo
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Toward subsurface magnetic permeability imaging with electromagnetic induction sensors: Sensitivity computation and reconstruction of measured data
Tim Klose; Julien Guillemoteau; François-Xavier Simon; Jens Tronicke
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An airborne electromagnetic system with a three-component transmitter and three-component receiver capable of detecting extremely conductive bodies
Richard S. Smith
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3D sequential inversion of frequency-domain airborne electromagnetic data to determine conductive and magnetic heterogeneities
Kyubo Noh; Seokmin Oh; Soon Jee Seol; Joongmoo Byun
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Geophysical Software and Algorithms

Human vision system-based structural similarity model for evaluating seismic image quality
Ning Yang; Yi Duan
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Gravity Exploration Methods

Exploring viable geologic interpretations of gravity models using distance-based global sensitivity analysis and kernel methods
Geoff Phelps; Celine Scheidt; Jef Caers
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3D inversion of potential field data using a marginalizing probabilistic method
Meixia Geng; Xiangyun Hu; Henglei Zhang; Shuang Liu
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3D gravity inversion of basement relief for a rift basin based on combined multinorm and normalized vertical derivative of the total horizontal derivative techniques
Xuliang Feng; Wanyin Wang; Bingqiang Yuan
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Magnetic Exploration Methods

Magnetization clustering inversion — Part 1: Building an automated numerical optimization algorithm
Jiajia Sun; Yaoguo Li
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Quantifying the error level in computed magnetic amplitude data for 3D magnetization inversion
Camriel Coleman; Yaoguo Li
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Magnetic Resonance Sounding

Frequency cycling to alleviate unknown frequency offsets for adiabatic half-passage pulses in surface nuclear magnetic resonance
Denys Grombacher; Raphael Dlugosch; Elliot Grunewald; Mike Müller-Petke; Esben Auken
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A new method for NMR data inversion based on double-parameter regularization
Jiangfeng Guo; Ranhong Xie; Youlong Zou; Guowen Jin; Lun Gao; Chenyu Xu
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Passive Seismic Methods

A regularized approach for estimation of a composite focal mechanism from a set of microearthquakes
Hongliang Zhang; David W. Eaton
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On the accuracy and efficiency of the joint source scanning algorithm for hydraulic fracturing monitoring
Yangyang Yu; Chuntao Liang; Furong Wu; Xuben Wang; Gang Yu; Fangdong Chu
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Reservoir Geophysics

Joint Bayesian inversion based on rock-physics prior modeling for the estimation of spatially correlated reservoir properties
Leandro Passos de Figueiredo; Dario Grana; Fernando Luis Bordignon; Marcio Santos; Mauro Roisenberg; Bruno B. Rodrigues
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3D seismic characterization of fractures with random spacing using the double-beam method
Hao Hu; Yingcai Zheng; Xinding Fang; Michael C. Fehler
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Rock Physics

Computation of effective elastic properties of clay from X-ray texture goniometry data
Laurent Louis; Ruarri Day-Stirrat; Ronny Hofmann; Nishank Saxena; Anja M. Schleicher
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Monitoring the changes in the microstructure and the elastic and transport properties of Eagle Ford marl during maturation
Krongrath Suwannasri; Tiziana Vanorio; Anthony Clark
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Estimating permeability of shale-gas reservoirs from porosity and rock compositions
Peiqiang Zhao; Jianchao Cai; Zhenhua Huang; Mehdi Ostadhassan; Fuqiang Ran
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Impact of fracture clustering on the seismic signatures of porous rocks containing aligned fractures
Nicolás D. Barbosa; J. Germán Rubino; Eva Caspari; Klaus Holliger
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Numerical analysis of local strain measurements in fluid-saturated rock samples submitted to forced oscillations
Samuel Chapman; Beatriz Quintal
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Seismic Amplitude Interpretation

Three-term amplitude-variation-with-offset projections
Vaughn Ball; Luis Tenorio; Christian Schiøtt; Michelle Thomas; J. P. Blangy
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Seismic Attributes and Pattern Recognition

Automatic fault interpretation with optimal surface voting
Xinming Wu; Sergey Fomel
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Seismic facies analysis using machine learning
Thilo Wrona; Indranil Pan; Robert L. Gawthorpe; Haakon Fossen
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Seismic fault detection with convolutional neural network
Wei Xiong; Xu Ji; Yue Ma; Yuxiang Wang; Nasher M. AlBinHassan; Mustafa N. Ali; Yi Luo
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Seismic Data Acquisition

Recording active-seismic ground rotations using induction-coil magnetometers
Ohad Barak; Kerry Key; Steven Constable; Shuki Ronen
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Seismic Inversion

Volume source-based extended waveform inversion
Guanghui Huang; Rami Nammour; William W. Symes
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Site characterization with 3D elastic full-waveform tomography
Trung Dung Nguyen; Khiem T. Tran
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Multichannel band-controlled deconvolution based on a data-driven structural regularization
Xin Du; Guofa Li; Mo Zhang; Hao Li; Wuyang Yang; Wanli Wang
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A self-adjoint velocity-stress full-waveform inversion approach to microseismic source estimation
Jordan Kaderli; Matthew D. McChesney; Susan E. Minkoff
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Multivariate stochastic seismic inversion with adaptive sampling
Maryam Hadavand Siri; Clayton V. Deutsch
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Source-independent extended waveform inversion based on space-time source extension: Frequency-domain implementation
Guanghui Huang; Rami Nammour; William W. Symes
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Elastic reflection traveltime inversion with decoupled wave equation
Guanchao Wang; Shangxu Wang; Jianyong Song; Chunhui Dong; Mingqiang Zhang
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Toward a stable iterative migration velocity analysis scheme
Emmanuel Cocher; Hervé Chauris; René-Édouard Plessix
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Coupling direct inversion to common-shot image-domain velocity analysis
Yubing Li; Hervé Chauris
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Optimal transport for mitigating cycle skipping in full-waveform inversion: A graph-space transform approach
Ludovic Métivier; Aude Allain; Romain Brossier; Quentin Mérigot; Edouard Oudet; Jean Virieux
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Variance-based model interpolation for improved full-waveform inversion in the presence of salt bodies
Oleg Ovcharenko; Vladimir Kazei; Daniel Peter; Tariq Alkhalifah
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Seismic Migration

Up/down separation of seismic depth images
Eric Duveneck
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One-way true-amplitude migration using matrix decomposition
Jiachun You; Ru-Shan Wu; Xuewei Liu
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Elastic reverse time migration using acoustic propagators
Yunyue Elita Li; Yue Du; Jizhong Yang; Arthur Cheng; Xinding Fang
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A practical implementation of subsalt Marchenko imaging with a Gulf of Mexico data set
Xueyi Jia; Antoine Guitton; Roel Snieder
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Multiparameter deblurring filter and its application to elastic migration and inversion
Zongcai Feng; Bowen Guo; Gerard T. Schuster
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Using a stereo-modeling operator to reduce aliasing during migration
Jingshuang Li; Dinghui Yang; Michael Fehler; Xueyuan Huang
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Accurate diffraction imaging for detecting small-scale geologic discontinuities
Peng Lin; Suping Peng; Jingtao Zhao; Xiaoqin Cui; Wenfeng Du
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A stable approach for Q-compensated viscoelastic reverse time migration using excitation amplitude imaging condition
Xuebin Zhao; Hui Zhou; Yufeng Wang; Hanming Chen; Zheng Zhou; Pengyuan Sun; Jianlei Zhang
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Seismic Modeling and Wave Propagation

Computation of ray-Born seismograms using isochrons
Martin Sarajaervi; Henk Keers
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Time reversal for wave refocusing and scatterer detection using machine learning
Matan Shustak; Evgeny Landa
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A generalized average-derivative optimal finite-difference scheme for 2D frequency-domain acoustic-wave modeling on continuous nonuniform grids
Quanli Li; Xiaofeng Jia
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An efficient ray-tracing method and its application to Gaussian beam migration in complex multilayered anisotropic media
Qianru Xu; Weijian Mao
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Embedded boundary methods for modeling 3D finite-difference Laplace-Fourier domain acoustic-wave equation with free-surface topography
Hussain AlSalem; Petr Petrov; Gregory Newman; James Rector
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Seismic Velocity/Statics

Elastic wave-equation datuming
Xufei Gong; Qizhen Du; Qiang Zhao; Pengyuan Sun; Jianlei Zhang; Zhenping Tian
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Signal Processing

A denoising framework for microseismic and reflection seismic data based on block matching
Chao Zhang; Mirko van der Baan
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Edge-preserving frequency-offset denoising of seismic data
Julián L. Gómez; Danilo R. Velis
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Back matter

Geophysics Dissertation Abstracts
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