Estimation of elastic contrasts in a layered model from seismic PS-to-PP amplitude ratios

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Dec 2009

adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=2009geoji.179.1617m&link_type=abstract

Geophysical Journal International, Volume 179, Issue 2, pp. 1617-1626.

Astronomy and Astrophysics

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Controlled Source Seismology, Body Waves, Acoustic Properties

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We present a method to estimate seismic velocity and density contrasts at a given interface in a 1-D layered model using PS-to-PP reflection amplitude ratios. The velocity structure above the reflector is constrained by traveltime modelling, and the amplitude ratios are determined using the same source-receiver pair for the measured PP and PS amplitudes (common-offset geometry). Thereby, source and receiver site effects are cancelled, and the remaining propagation effects are included in the ray theoretical forward modelling of theoretical PS-to-PP ratios. A minimization of the least-squares misfit between observed and modelled ratios provides the remaining elastic parameters below the reflector of interest (P velocity, P-to-S velocity ratio, density). 1-D examples and a 2-D synthetic case study with a dipping reflector and a laterally varying overburden demonstrate the possibilities and limitations of the method. An application of the method to a 0.6 km deep reflector below the Campi Flegrei caldera, Italy, reveals a strong contrast with a P-velocity increase from less than 2 to 3.5 kms-1 and a decrease of the P-to-S velocity ratio from 3.6 to 1.75. The proposed PS-to-PP amplitude ratio analysis is applicable for wide-angle seismic reflection data, especially when strong elastic parameter contrasts are expected and when source amplitudes or site effects are poorly known.

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