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Introduction to imaging
EXPLODING REFLECTORS
A powerful analogy
Huygens secondary point source
Migration defined
An impulse in the data
Hand migration
Reflector steepening
Limitations of the exploding-reflector concept
Plate tectonics example
SURROUNDING DISCIPLINES
Physics
Derivation of the acoustic wave equation
Reflections and the high-frequency limit
Failure of Newtonian viscosity
Geophysics
Nonobservation of converted shear waves
Reliability of reverberation modeling
What you can get from reflection seismology
Mathematics
Philosophy of inverse problems
Mathematical inverse problems
Geology
The clastic section
Chrono-stratigraphy
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Stanford Exploration Project
10/31/1997