Reprocessing of Reflection Seismic Data to Highlight Near-Surface Glacio-Tectonic Deformations

Autor: H. Buness, T. Burschil
Rok vydání: 2021
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Zdroj: NSG2021 27th European Meeting of Environmental and Engineering Geophysics.
Popis: Summary A small scaled 3-D P-wave survey (0.018 km2) in an overdeepened valley of the Rhine Glacier (Tannwald Basin) revealed glacio-tectonic structures at depths of 20–50 m, interpreted as cuspate-lobate folding. Previous 2-D lines, processed using prestack depth migration (PSDM), only displayed a region with poor imaging quality. A careful reprocessing of the 2-D data using common reflection surface (CRS) and prestack time migration (PSTM) now gives an image matching the high-resolution of the 3-D data. The glacio-tectonic structures exhibit very low velocities that were not accounted for in the PSDM processing and led to a distortion of deeper layers. Based on the PSDM migrated 2-D data, we speculated about a deep-reaching tectonic fault zone, which is not probable anymore in the light of the reprocessed data.
Databáze: OpenAIRE