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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
MASW in Nutshell
F.T.
Shot gather
- Xia et al.,
- Park
1998 et al., 1998
Entrance
SledgehammerLand Streamer
UH Coastal Center
Galveston, Texas
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
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
SledgehammerLand Streamer
SledgehammerPlanted Geophone
OBSERVATION #1 : Raw Shot Gather Quality Is
Better for Planted Geophone Cases
Accelerated Weight
DropPlanted Geophone
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
45m
DMax 22.5m
OBSERVATION#3:
Better Mode Separation
Lower Noise Level
Depth Penetration 22.5m
Higher Modes
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
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