Tell students that a seismic reflection happens when a wave impinges on a change in rock type. Part of the energy carried by the wave is transmitted through the material (refracted wave ...

Active source pure seismology uses both marine and onshore reflection and wide-angle seismic data to study subjects ranging from continental crustal structure and genesis, characterization of gas ...

Seismic reflection profiling is used for making 2-D or 3-D cross-sections of underground structures. The principle behind reflection seismics is the same as with underwater echo-ranging. A typical ...

In addition to sonography, reflection seismology gives an example of an imaging method where the wave equation can be used as a model of measurements. Seismic reflection method seeks to create an ...

Since then, techniques for processing seismic reflection data have advanced considerably, enabling today's scientists to extract far more detailed images of subsurface features from existing datasets.

Figure 1: Example of some possible source-receiver combinations with reflection points of PP and SS waves beneath the Atlantic that can be used to study the seismic anisotropy in the MTZ (a).