By PHILLIP BORDING and LARRY LINES

Editor's note: Bording is a consultant in Hazel Green, Ala., and Lines is with the University of Calgary, Canada.

The Geophysical Corner is a regular column in the EXPLORER, produced cooperatively by the AAPG Geophysical Integration and SEG Interpretation committees, and edited by R. Randy Ray. This month's column is titled "Seismic Modeling and Imaging - Making Waves."

Seismic Modeling Makes Waves

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A series of model snapshots of an expanding seismic wavefield at 200 ms time intervals for a surface seismic source above a salt dome model. The figure is from a paper by Dan Whitmore and Larry Lines (1986 Geophysics, v. 51, 1,087-1,109), and is used with the authors' permission.