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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.
Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 02, 1979
Filed:
Jul. 12, 1978
Applicant:
Inventor:
Booth B Strange, Houston, TX (US);
Assignee:
Western Geophysical Co. of America, Houston, TX (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G01V / ; G01V / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
367 23 ; 181111 ; 181115 ;
Abstract
In seismic exploration, particularly at sea, several seismic acoustic sources selected from different genera of such sources are combined in a single array. The several sources are fired substantially simultaneously so that the acoustic pulses from the several sources blend together to create a single composite seismic wave. The source genera are selected such that their initial impulses are in phase but their caudal transients are incoherent with respect to one another so that the initial impulse is enhanced at the expense of the after-pulses.