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A salt body in the Gulf of Mexico proved the perfect proving grounds for a new geologic technique designed to reduce risk and improve seismic imaging both beneath and below the structure.

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Riding high on the success of last year's initial experience, the creators of APPEX 2002 are expecting this year's event to be not only twice as big but twice as successful as well.

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VR chamber uses data to create a 3-D world to immerse scientists into to get a better view.

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What was once unconventional can become commonplace. Remember when fixing a lunch in a microwave oven was rare?

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This month's column is titled 'Spectral Decomposition for Seismic Stratigraphic Patterns.'

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AAPG member Dave Campbell has some quality time at the AAPG Spring Student Expo.

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And now, for something completely different: Seismic is being used in Belize to help archaeologists reconstruct the events that led to the disappearance of the Maya.

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Deeper targets? Deeper water? Maturing fields? Whatever the challenge, the geophysical technology needed for the most complex and demanding scenarios seems at hand.

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The geophysical industry is facing a host of environmental and safety issues that could significantly impact the bottom line of seismic operations -- and in some cases hamper access to certain regions of the world.

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If you could listen to a heartbeat of the geophysical industry today, you might be tempted to call 911. While not yet to the life support stage, the health of this sector might best be described as poor and still declining.

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VG Abstract

In comparison with the known boundary conditions that promote salt deformation and flow in sedimentary basins, the processes involved with the mobilization of clay-rich detrital sediments are far less well established. This talk will use seismic examples in different tectonic settings to document the variety of shale geometries that can be formed under brittle and ductile deformations.

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DL Abstract

Three-dimensional (3D) seismic-reflection surveys provide one of the most important data types for understanding subsurface depositional systems. Quantitative analysis is commonly restricted to geophysical interpretation of elastic properties of rocks in the subsurface. Wide availability of 3D seismic-reflection data and integration provide opportunities for quantitative analysis of subsurface stratigraphic sequences. Here, we integrate traditional seismic-stratigraphic interpretation with quantitative geomorphologic analysis and numerical modeling to explore new insights into submarine-channel evolution.

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DL Abstract

Around 170 million years ago, the Gulf of Mexico basin flooded catastrophically, and the pre-existing landscape, which had been a very rugged, arid, semi-desert world, was drowned beneath an inland sea of salt water. The drowned landscape was then buried under kilometers of salt, perfectly preserving the older topography. Now, with high-quality 3D seismic data, the salt appears as a transparent layer, and the details of the drowned world can be seen in exquisite detail, providing a unique snapshot of the world on the eve of the flooding event. We can map out hills and valleys, and a system of river gullies and a large, meandering river system. These rivers in turn fed into a deep central lake, whose surface was about 750m below global sea level. This new knowledge also reveals how the Louann Salt was deposited. In contrast to published models, the salt was deposited in a deep water, hypersaline sea. We can estimate the rate of deposition, and it was very fast; we believe that the entire thickness of several kilometers of salt was laid down in a few tens of thousands of years, making it possibly the fastest sustained deposition seen so far in the geological record.

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