Errata for
"Elements of 3-D Seismology"
by Christopher L. Liner
Published 1999 by Pennwell Publishing Company
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  1. p.xii -- Near end of third paragraph: For 'http://doiuze.utulsa.edu~cll/ChrisLiner.html' read 'http://ens.utulsa.edu/~cll/ChrisLiner.html' (cll)
  2. p.3 -- Next to last sentence: For '(peak, trough, zero crossing, etc.)' read '(peak, trough, downslope zero crossing, etc.)'. This distinction is necessary because the distance between sucessive zero crossings is actually the half wavelength. (yxs)
  3. p.5 -- Exercise 1.1: For '0:25 s' read '0.025 s'
  4. p.5 -- Below equation 1.3: Another common definition of dominant frequency is the peak of the frequency spectrum of a window in the seismic data (axc)
  5. p.6 -- Line 6, for 'a little more than four octaves' read 'a little more than three octaves' (cxl)
  6. p.10 -- Exercise 1.4: Semicolons should change to commas and v-symbols are inconsistent font. (bmr,cll)
  7. p.11 -- Figure 1-7: Vertical axis label is 'z'. (hem)
  8. p.14 -- Last sentence, for 'Poisson ratio: ' read 'Poisson ratio, [sigma]'. (hem)
  9. p. 15 -- Equation 1.13 (hem)
  10. p.15 -- First sentence, for 'g' read 'gamma' (axc)
  11. p.15 -- Last sentence of velocity variation section: For 'thiss' read 'this'. (hem)
  12. p.17 -- Last sentence, next to last paragraph: For 'muticomponent' read 'multicomponent'. (hem)
  13. p.16 -- First sentence for Anisotropic: For 'velocity is depends on' read 'velocity depends on'. (bmr)
  14. p.17 -- Last paragraph, the Thomsen parameters are (epsilon,delta) not (xsi,delta). (cll)
  15. p.19 -- Equation 1.20 (cll)
  16. p.19 -- Equation 1.21 (yxs)
  17. p.20 -- First sentence: read '... the repeated kl in this equation is an implied summation of both k and l from 1 to 3.' (yxs)
  18. p.20 -- First full sentence below Equation 1.22: For 'tij' read '[tau] sub ij'. (yxs)
  19. p.20 -- Equation 1.23, for 'cijke' read 'cijkl' (axc)
  20. p.23 -- Figure 2-1 caption is split by the actual figure. Caption should be below figure. (hem)
  21. p.24 -- Second paragraph, for 'frst' read 'first' (axc)
  22. p.25 -- Equation 2.6: Font for v-symbols are inconsistent. (bmr)
  23. p.27 -- Fig. 2-3 caption, for 'this case. Is' read 'this case is' (axc)
  24. p.27 -- Equation 2.8: For '2/5 Hz' read '2.5 Hz'. (yxs)
  25. p.27 -- Equation 2.9: For Cos read Cos. (hem)
  26. p.29 -- Equation 2.10 (rxn) and Equation 2.11 (rxn)
  27. p.30 -- Equation 2.12, correct font and subscript for f1 and f2 (axc)
  28. p.43 -- Fig. 3-3, for 'bed = 0.25 lamba', read 'bed = 0.25 lambda' (axc)
  29. p.45 -- Figure 3-5 (hem)
  30. p.46 -- Fig. 3-6, for 'bed = 0.25 lamba', read 'bed = 0.25 lambda' (axc)
  31. p.48 -- Figure 3-8 (hem)
  32. p.51 -- Fig. 4-2, wavefronts should be more circular at the bottom (axc)
  33. p.56 -- Equation 4.9 (rxn)
  34. p. 60 -- Third bullet item: For 'at which R0 = 1.0 ' read 'at which R = 1.0 ' (hew)
  35. p.61 -- First gray box: For ' v1 = 2,000 m/s v2 = 4,000 m/s ' read ' v1 = 2000 m/s v2 = 4000 m/s '
  36. p.62 -- First full paragraph, second sentence: For 'v1 > v2' read 'v2 > v1'. (yxs)
  37. p.62 -- Fig. 4-12, for 'relflection' read 'reflection' (axc)
  38. p.63 -- Figure 4-13: No box in lower medium of (A) and adjust headwave line of (B). (hem)
  39. p.64 -- Table 4-1, for 'Fig.42' read 'Fig. 4-6' (axc,cll)
  40. p.66 -- Problem 2: For 'travel time is 250 m/s' read 'travel time is 250 ms'. (cll)
  41. p.67 -- Problem 7: For 'What is R0 ?' read 'What is R0 ?', and for '(2.5,1,000,3.0,1,700)' read '(2.5,1000,3.0,1700)'. (cll)
  42. p.67 -- Problem 9: For '(5,000,2,700,6,000,2,500)' read '(5000,2700,6000,2000)'. (cll)
  43. p.72 -- Dividends paragraph, 4th line: For 'can be seen as as sign ' read 'can be seen as a sign '. (yxs)
  44. p.77 -- Paragraph 2: For ' LRR % = 100*(profit)/(cost of 3-D survey)' read the better form ' LRR = ((profit)/(cost of 3-D survey)) * 100 %'. (cxl)
  45. p.77 -- Excercise 5.2: For 'from Exercise 8.1' read 'from Exercise 5.1'. (hem)
  46. p.98 -- Sentence below Equation 7.4: For ' where SNI is the SN of ' read ' where SNR is the signal-to-noise ratio of '. (rxn)
  47. p.100 -- Equation 7.6: For 3.2 read 3.13 (rpw)
  48. p.104 -- Equation 7.11 (cll)
  49. p.109 -- Under Recording System Accuracy, 1. for 'image' read 'image)' (axc)
  50. p.111 -- For '6. steamer' read '6. streamer', for 'Other design actors', read 'Other design factors' (axc)
  51. p.117 -- Line 6: For ' contains all midpont locations ' read ' contains all midpoint locations '. (rxn)
  52. p.125 -- Equation 9.6: For 'tx' and 'ty' read 'tx ' and 'ty'. Also last line on page: For '1,760 ' read '1760 '. (cll)
  53. p.126 -- Second line from top: Drop equation number 9.8 (hew)
  54. p.133 -- Bold title of third constraint: For 'Bin siz' read 'Bin size' (ixh)
  55. p.133 -- Far offset paragraph: For 'a far offset with is' read 'a far offset which is' (hew)
  56. p.135 -- Equation 10.2: For '(24,110,55,6,700,500)' read '(24,110,55,6700,500)' (cll)
  57. p.135 -- Equation 10.3: For '(4,762;110;220;915;44,11)' read '(4762,110,220,915,44,11)' (cll)
  58. p.135 -- Line below Equation 10.3: For '9,472 * 9,464' read '9472 x 9464' (cll)
  59. p.137 -- Bottom line in first gray box: For '(18 4 110 82.5 500 5,000 50)' read '(18 4 110 82.5 500 5000 500)' (ixh)
  60. p.138-9 -- Large gray boxes: Several spurious commas appear. Correct form. (ixh)
  61. p.141 -- Paragraph 3 line 2: For ' single cable ' read ' dual cable '. (rxn)
  62. p.141 -- Paragraph 4 line 1: For 'Figure 11-1' read 'Figure 11-2 '. (rxn)
  63. p.143 -- Paragraph 3 line 2: For 'x CMP spacing of half the source interval ' read 'CMPx = 0.5 Min(Sx,Rx)'. (rxn)
  64. p.166 -- Paragraph 1 line 3: For 'Items is this category' read 'Items in this category'. (hem)
  65. p.170 -- Figure 14-3: Text between figure and caption, 'Inversion -> seismic log data' is spurious and should be removed. (cll)
  66. p. 170 -- Figure 14-4: This figure should be deleted and Figure 14-4 on page 171 retained. (gwb)
  67. p.172 -- Equation 14.4 (rxn)
  68. p.177 -- Figure 14-9 caption: The footnoted text (denoted by asterisk) should be the first line of the caption. (cll)
  69. p.181 -- Paragraph 1 line 6: For '[theta]c' read '[theta]' (rxn)
  70. p.181 -- Paragraph 2 line 2: For '[theta]c' read '[theta]' (rxn)
  71. p.181 -- Paragraph 3 line 1: For ' The safest rule is for bin ' read ' The safest rule for bin '. (cll)
  72. p.182 -- For 'Exercise 15.2' read 'Exercise 15.1' (hem)
  73. p.183 -- Under 'Variable fold' heading the word 'Introduces' should not be bold. (cll)
  74. p.184 -- For 'Exercise 15.3' read 'Exercise 15.2' (hem)
  75. p.202 -- For 'wk Supercomputer (Unix)' read 'sc Supercomputer (Unix)'. (cll)
  76. p.205 -- Equation 17.2 (gwb)
  77. p.205 -- Equation 17.3 (cxl)
  78. p.215 -- Line 1 below Equation 18.1: For '[theta]c' read '[theta]' (rxn)
  79. p.218 -- Equation 18.4 (cll)
  80. p.219 -- Insert new table of migration impulse responses. (cll)
  81. p.221 -- Equation 18.5 (cll)
  82. p. 222 -- Table 18-1: The terms 'Typical parameters' should be the caption of this table, not column headings. (ihk)
  83. p. 226 -- For 'Table 18-1' read 'Table 18-2 ' and colunn headings should be aligned with the columns. (ihk)
  84. p.227-8 -- Equation 18.9 (cll)
  85. p.239 -- Item 7 under 'Notes' should start a new line (hem)
  86. p.240 -- Fouth paragraph, first sentence: For '(at z=1,000, x=13,000)' read '(at z=1000, x=13000)'. (cll)
  87. p.240 -- Near bottom: Read 'Prestack time migration Å NMO + DMO + CMP stack + poststack migration'. (cll)
  88. p.240 -- Near bottom: Read 'Prestack depth migration ­ NMO + DMO + CMP stack + poststack migration'. (cll)
  89. p.241 -- Figure 19-2 caption: For 'x=13,000 and z=1,000' read 'x=13000 and z=1000'. (cll)
  90. p.255 -- Paragraph 4 line 2: This line should be deleted.
  91. p.257 -- In header: For ' Chapter 2 ' read ' Chapter 21 '. (cll)
  92. p.294 -- Equation 25.1 (cxl)
  93. p.305 -- Paragraph 1 line 3: For 'Table 10' read 'Table 26-2'. (hem)
  94. p.306 -- Table caption: For 'Table 26-1' read 'Table 26-2'. (hem)
  95. p.311 -- Equation 27.1 (cll)
  96. p.313 -- Item 7: For 'Radius of Curvature > l' read 'Radius of Curvature > [lambda]' . (cll)
  97. p.313 -- Item 7: For 'Radius of Curvature < l' read 'Radius of Curvature < [lambda]'. (cll)
  98. p. 317 -- Table 27-1: Column headings should be aligned with the columns, and be subscripted (A1,A2,A3). (ihk)
  99. p.321 -- Equation 28.1 (rxn) and last paragraph line 2 read ' acoustic R([theta]) is shown ' (cll)
  100. p.347 -- Equation 31.3 (hem)
  101. p.348 -- Figure 31-1 caption: For 'Gas density', read 'Gas density and sound speed'. (hem)
  102. p.354 -- Table 31-3 caption: For 'oil calculations' read 'brine calculations'. (hem)
  103. p.354 -- Equation 31.7 (hem)
  104. p.355 -- Equation 31.8 (hem) Note: The term 1820 S2 at the end of vbrine is correct. In the original paper by Batzle and Wang (1992) this was erroneously given as 820 S2.
  105. p.362 -- Table 32-2 caption: For 'Rock density', read 'Rock modulus and sound speed'. (hem)
  106. p.363 -- Figure 32-1 caption is split by the actual figure. Caption should be below figure. (hem)
  107. p.366 -- Last sentence of 2nd paragraph: For 'The allows us' read 'This allows us'. (hem)
  108. p.368 -- Figure 32-5 caption: For 'signicant' read 'significant'. (hem)
  109. p.392 -- Problem 14: For 'v1 is the ...' read 'The incident angle is 15 degrees, and v1 is the ...' (cll)
  110. p.392 -- Problem 16: For 'v1=1,000 rho=2.0 ' read 'for v1=10 000 and rho1=2.0 '. (cll)
  111. p.392 -- Problem 16: For 'v2=2,000 rho=1.0 ' read 'for v2=20 000 and rho2=1.0 '. (cll)
  112. p.392 -- Problem 20: For 'at (45º C) on' read 'at 45º on'. (hem)
  113. p.403-5 -- Exercises 5.1 through 5.5: In large numbers replace each comma with a space. (cll)
  114. p.403 -- Exercise 1.4 line 3: For '3.55' read '3.35'. (hem)
  115. p.403 -- Exercise 5.1, second text line from bottom of page: For '$410K' read '$4.1 million'. (yxs)
  116. p.404 -- Exercise 5.3: Correction to last equation. (cxl)
  117. p.405 -- Exercise 7.2: For ' Max[12,2*15] = Max[12,30] ' read ' Max[24,2*15] = Max[24,30] '. (yxs)
  118. p.405 -- Exercise 7.3, inside square root: For ' 80 * 60 ' read ' 8 * 60 '. (gwb)
  119. p.407 -- Exercise 9.2: For 'See Figure D-9 ' read 'See Figure D-1. Fold at location 1 is three and at location 2 is four.' (hem)
  120. p.407 -- Exercise 9.4: For '= 68 f ' read '= 68 ft ' (hew)
  121. p.410 -- Excercise 13.2 (rxn)
  122. p.411 -- Excercise 14.1 (rxn)
  123. p.411 -- For 'Exercise 14.2' read 'Exercise 15.1'... in this exercise for 'does not satisfy the half-wavelength rule' read 'does not satisfy the quarter-wavelength rule'. (hem)
  124. p. 412 -- Exercise 17.3: In the processing time calculation, for '47,514 min' read '45 714 min'. (ihk)
  125. p.413-5 -- There are many bugs in the answers to the predesign exercise in Chapter 21. Correct versions: 1-10, 11-15 (ihk,rxn,cll)

    Contributors:

    axc= Andreas Cordsen (GEDCO)
    bmr = Bryant M. Reasoner (UTulsa)
    cll = Chris Liner (UTulsa)
    cxl = Chunfeng Li (Utulsa)
    gwb = Grant Byerley (Phillips Petroleum Company, Bartlesville, OK, USA)
    hem = Hamed El-Mowafy (UTulsa)
    ihk = I. H. Kartoatmodjo, aka 'Bimo' (UTulsa)
    ixh = Ian Harris (UTulsa)
    rpw = Robert Wilson (UTulsa)
    rxn = Ramin Nawab (Repsol Exploracion S. A., Madrid, Spain)
    yxs = Youshun Sun (MIT, Cambridge, MA, USA)