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The
Evolution
Of a
Salt
dome
David Paige
Made visible by advanced
non-linear noise removal.
To close out the point. The farther we can correlate an event into the spread the more secure
we are in saying it is internal rather than surface noise. Next, we get back to the salt dome theme.
You are going to see a lot of events in the next slides. The main point of the show is
the removal of strong coherent noise has brought out a previously unseen geological reality. .
Conventional stack
...
Finishing up
.that
Unfortunately my de-noising
logic has a mind of its own, and it
completely obliterated his targets
This left him with no payout, and
he lost interest in the big technical
breakthroughs. At the same time I
was overjoyed at the results. This
led to an eventual conflict, and I
was told to destroy everything that
has been done. Since this did not
start out as a processing contract,
and since Ive essentially worked
for free I have refused to drop the
subject, although you will find no
location information in this show.
So I am still holding my breath,
which is pretty hard at my age.
And here are two pairs of before and afters. The outlines in yellow show the approximate comparison sections.
Bounding fault
guesses are drawn
in to give positional
reference.
Most important
here is the deep
unconformity visible
on both examples. It
only appeared after
shot level de-noising.
By my correlation
the combination of
events we see here
ties to a deep well to
the south. The shale
play bed correlation
was made there..
If you look closely
in the center you see
pieces of continuity.
I firmly believe we
are seeing very
complex salt
intruded faulting
here.
And here are two more pairs of before and afters. The outlines in yellow show the approximate comparison sections.
What can I say? If this
pair of examples does not
convince you that we are
looking at a new world of
enhanced resolution I may
have to give up.
For my convenience
I will henceforth refer to the
conventional processing as
they, and to the de-noised
output as my.
And here are two pairs of before and afters. The outlines in yellow show the approximate comparison sections.
The ? Shows that
my resolution is still far
from perfect, and the
fault pattern eludes me.
And here are two pairs of before and afters. The outlines in yellow show the approximate comparison sections.
You can see
I did not draw in
any faults on the
right flank. I hope
by now you can
visualize where I
would put them.
we get serious
about this on the
next slide.
Strike slip faults are a whole new world to most older interpreters.
The tearing
action that results from shallower beds being torn part by deep plate lateral movement has made vertical faulting
the norm in todays interpretations, Here is an exotic example from the right end of the dome.
The fact that we can see these remarkable lineups
speaks well for our separation of the coherent noise from this underlying signal.
We say normal faults are due to pulling, and thrust faults due to pushing. We then
can say that strike slip faults are due to tearing (we could call it lateral pulling but it
is not quire the same).
I dont know about you, but I see dozens of minor faults I close
out by picking seven of them. As you can see the ones on the left reach into the salt
domain. Typically there is a sharing of the lateral movement by multiple breaks.