I am searching for a good atlas on seismic interpretation. I have found the Badley's book and it is quite good but I am most interested in the structural interpretation. Any clues?
Please go through "Seismic interpretation of contractional fault-related folds". This is an AAPG seismic atlas edited by H. Shaw, Christopher Connors and John Suppe (2005). The introduction of the atlas says,• "AAPG seismic atlas serves as an intructional guide and resource for the interpretation of complex structures imaged in seismic reflection profiles ... These structures form the majority of the large hydrocarbon traps in both orogenic and passive-margin fold and thrust belts worldwide ... The atlas contains seismic sections from the U.S.A. (Texas, California, Oklahoma, Tennessee, the Gulf of Mexico), Canada (Alberta foothills), Colombia, Venezuela, Peru, Argentina, Brazil, Nigeria (Niger Delta), China, Italy, and Indonesia". The examples are given from simple to complex situations. This atlas is not only good for interpretation, if somebody likes to raise a special paper on "Seismic Stratigraphy" or "Thrust belt Tectonics", it is simply brilliant.
The best modern resource that I can recommend to you is the virtual seismic Atlas which is a modern upgrading of the old paper book published by AAPG - http://www.seismicatlas.org/
We invite you and your research group to submit four contributions/entries (four seismic colour images and captions), from any terrain, in this atlas. You can submit your already published images after taking due permission.
If you are interested, kindly express interest within 29-Sept-2015 at [email protected] and submit contributions within Nov 2015. Please ask for clarifications if you need so.
Deadlines:
1. Expression of interest: 29-Sept-2015
2. Submission of images and captions: Nov 2015
3. Review comments reach authors: Dec 2015
4. Book ms submitted to Wiley Blackwell: March 2016
5. Book publication: October 2016
Wiley Blackwell will publish the atlas with all images in colour. Therefore we will receive high resolution (300 dpi) colour images. Images need not come from the same terrain, and may represent different structures. Captions should be well explanatory and utilize up to 500 words. Compulsorily provide us uninterpreted seismic images as well. Include explanatory sketches/models/maps/3D views/seismic attribute images/well data etc. to support your interpretation. It will be good to provide up to 4 references per caption so that the reader can go back to the key publications and learn more about that structure or the terrain.
Interpretation could be inherently subjective. To address this important yet commonly overlooked aspect, we wish to get some of the submitted seismic images interpreted by another author who is unaware of the terrain. If you agree to have your seismic image interpreted by another author, please mention that in your cover letter. We may keep such re-interpretations in a web-based repository as “Supplementary Material”.
If you have diffraction seismic images as a new imaging technology, we would encourage to submit those images along with their interpretations. Please demonstrate how they are better in imaging certain structures.
We intend to have the following chapters/divisions in the book. However, being an edited volume, the final chapters will actually depend on the actual contributions received. We (editors) will write brief introduction for individual chapters. In case your contribution does not match with the contents that we have set, we can add up a miscellaneous section to incorporate such images and contributions.
We anticipate the book will be of great use to both academicians and professionals. It will also be a place to showcase (y)our research works.
Tentative contents:
1. General information on seismic technology
2. Structural geology basics
3. Faults
i. Normal faults
ii. Reverse faults/Thrusts
iii. Strike-slip faults
iv. Fault linkages/transfers/relay ramps
v. Reactivation
vi. Inversion
vii. Sediment-fault interactions
4. Folds
i. Compressional folds: antiforms
ii. Compressional folds: synforms
iii. Compaction structures
iv. Forced folds
v. Roll-over anticlines
vi. Sediment fold interactions
5. Mobile substrates – shale and salt
i. Shale Growth Fault Thrusts Belts (GFTBs)
ii. Salt structures
iii. Complications in salt and sub-salt interpretations