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Ground-roll Inversion for Near-surface

Shear-Wave Velocity

by
Soumya Roy, Graduate Student
Department of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences
University of Houston

1. Introduction
2. Multichannel Analysis of Surface Wave
(MASW) in Nutshell
3. MASW Analysis of Seismic Data
- La Marque, Tx
4. Results and Interpretation
5. Future Avenues

Introduction
Estimating a near-surface S-wave velocity (Vs) structure is important
Provide static solution for multi-component seismic analysis
Ground Roll inversion can provide near-surface Vs solution
Multichannel Analysis of Surface Wave (MASW) is one of the most
popular methods for Ground Roll (mainly Rayleigh wave) inversion
MASW is applied to different real data sets from La Marque Geophysical
Observatory, TX
Effect of a Near-surface Low-velocity Layer in x-t domain data

-Dulaijan, 2008 (modified after Farrell et al., 1984)

MASW in Nutshell
F.T.

Shot gather

- Xia et al.,
- Park
1998 et al., 1998

La Marque Geophysical Observatory N


University of Houston Coastal Center
Galveston County, Texas
SledgehammerPlanted Geophone

Entrance
SledgehammerLand Streamer

Accelerated Weight DropPlanted Geophone

UH Coastal Center

Galveston, Texas

La Marque Geophysical Observatory


The topography of the field site is flat.
Sediments are from the Quaternary Beaumont Formation
consisting of clay and silty clay (Capuano et al., 1996).
One seismic experiment was performed along the road whereas
other two was done on solid land blocks

Seismic Experiments
Experiment 1:
Source: 10 lb Sledgehammer
Receiver: Land Streamer
Experiment 2:
Source: 10 lb Sledgehammer
Receiver: Planted Geophone
Experiment 3:
Source: Accelerated Weight Drop
Receiver: Planted Geophone

La Marque Geophysical Observatory

Sledgehammer-Planted Geophone

Sledgehammer-Land Streamer

N
W
Sample Interval: 0.5 ms
Record Length: 2 sec

E
S

Sample Interval: 2 ms
Record Length: 3 sec

La Marque Geophysical Observatory

Accelerated Weight Drop Planted Geophone


W
Sample Interval: 0.5 ms
Record Length: 3 sec

Raw Shot Gathers

SledgehammerLand Streamer
SledgehammerPlanted Geophone
OBSERVATION #1 : Raw Shot Gather Quality Is
Better for Planted Geophone Cases

Accelerated Weight
DropPlanted Geophone

Dispersion Curves: Sledgehammer-Land Streamer

Near-field effects :
Far-field effect:
Non-stabilized
surface waves
Dominance of higher modes
Degrade
near-offset lower frequencies (having deeper
Affect the higher frequencies (having shallower
information)
in theOBSERVATION#2:
fundamental mode.

20m
information) of the fundamental mode
DMax 10m

Depth Penetration 10m

Dispersion Curves: Sledgehammer-Planted Geophone

45m
DMax 22.5m

OBSERVATION#3:
Better Mode Separation
Lower Noise Level
Depth Penetration 22.5m

Higher Modes

Dispersion Curves: Accelerated Weight Drop Planted Geophone

36m
DMax 18m

OBSERVATION#4:
Depth Penetration 18m

2-D Shear-wave
Velocity
Profile
Sledgehammer-Land Streamer

Observation#5:
Road

SledgehammerLand Streamer

tStatics = zi / Vi

Sledgehammer-Planted Geophone

SledgehammerPlanted Geophone

Is There Any Shear Wave Anisotropy ?


SE

NW

N
1026

1026

S
E1025
1025

1023
1023

1022
1022

Future Plans
Use of higher modes
Passive MASW
Synthetic modeling using Finite-Difference
code
Well log and VSP at La Marque
Geophysical Observatory
Comparing MASW statics with regular
statics

Acknowledgement
Dr. Robert R. Stewart
Dr. C. Liner
AGL colleagues- Ms Tania Mukherjee,
Mr. Bode Omoboya, Mr. Anoop
William
Mr. Li Chang and Mr. Joe Jackson

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