A Novel Over-Sea-Ice Seismic Refl ection Survey
Program (ANDRILL). The 2005 ANDRILL Southern McMurdo Sound Project (SMS) seismic survey incorporated techniques that improved the quality of over-sea-ice seismic data. Previous over-sea-ice seismic experiments have had limited success because of poor source coupling caused by thin sea ice and source...
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ftciteseerx:oai:CiteSeerX.psu:10.1.1.460.875 2023-05-15T13:56:44+02:00 A Novel Over-Sea-Ice Seismic Refl ection Survey Terra Antartica S. J. Betterly M. A. Speece R. H. Levy D. M. Harwood S. A. Henrys The Pennsylvania State University CiteSeerX Archives 2007 application/pdf http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/summary?doi=10.1.1.460.875 http://www.mna.unisi.it/english/Publications/TAP/TA_pdfs/Volume_14/TA_14_097_Betterly.pdf en eng http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/summary?doi=10.1.1.460.875 http://www.mna.unisi.it/english/Publications/TAP/TA_pdfs/Volume_14/TA_14_097_Betterly.pdf Metadata may be used without restrictions as long as the oai identifier remains attached to it. http://www.mna.unisi.it/english/Publications/TAP/TA_pdfs/Volume_14/TA_14_097_Betterly.pdf text 2007 ftciteseerx 2016-01-08T06:34:47Z Program (ANDRILL). The 2005 ANDRILL Southern McMurdo Sound Project (SMS) seismic survey incorporated techniques that improved the quality of over-sea-ice seismic data. Previous over-sea-ice seismic experiments have had limited success because of poor source coupling caused by thin sea ice and source bubble-pulse effects caused by explosive seismic sources placed in the water column. To mitigate these problems, a Generator-Injector (GI) air gun was used as the seismic source. The GI air gun was lowered into the water column through holes drilled through the sea ice. The GI air gun minimized the source bubble effects that had plagued previous over-sea-ice experiments in the Antarctic. A 60-channel seismic snow streamer consisting of vertically oriented gimbaled geophones with 25-m takeout spacing was employed to aid rapid data collection. The 2005 SMS seismic survey produced data that accurately tied into existing single-channel marine seismic data and demonstrated the value of the air-gun/snow-streamer system for future over-sea-ice seismic surveys in the Antarctic. Text Antarc* Antarctic McMurdo Sound Sea ice Unknown Antarctic McMurdo Sound The Antarctic |
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Program (ANDRILL). The 2005 ANDRILL Southern McMurdo Sound Project (SMS) seismic survey incorporated techniques that improved the quality of over-sea-ice seismic data. Previous over-sea-ice seismic experiments have had limited success because of poor source coupling caused by thin sea ice and source bubble-pulse effects caused by explosive seismic sources placed in the water column. To mitigate these problems, a Generator-Injector (GI) air gun was used as the seismic source. The GI air gun was lowered into the water column through holes drilled through the sea ice. The GI air gun minimized the source bubble effects that had plagued previous over-sea-ice experiments in the Antarctic. A 60-channel seismic snow streamer consisting of vertically oriented gimbaled geophones with 25-m takeout spacing was employed to aid rapid data collection. The 2005 SMS seismic survey produced data that accurately tied into existing single-channel marine seismic data and demonstrated the value of the air-gun/snow-streamer system for future over-sea-ice seismic surveys in the Antarctic. |
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A Novel Over-Sea-Ice Seismic Refl ection Survey |
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A Novel Over-Sea-Ice Seismic Refl ection Survey |
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