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Computing the aperture-angle with the equation (1) assumes that the reflection happens in the inline direction and that there is no azimuthal component to it. This assumption is correct in the 2-D case I analyze in this paper, but it is still an open question when dealing with 3-D data.

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Stanford Exploration Project
10/25/1999