Seismic signature of modern sediments – application to petroleum exploration

D. E. Searle

doi:10.1071/EG983095

ISSN: 0812-3985
E-ISSN: 1834-7533

Seismic signature of modern sediments – application to petroleum exploration
Authors D. E. Searle^a
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^a Geological Survey of Queensland, 41 George Street Brisbane, Qld, 4000
Publisher: Australian Society of Exploration Geophysicists
Source: Exploration Geophysics, Volume 14, Issue 3-4, Sep 1983, p. 95 - 102
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1071/EG983095
- Published online: 01 Sep 1983

Abstract

All sedimentary rocks are the product of their provenance, dispersal and depositional environment, and indications of these factors are preserved in the geologic record. The classical Uniformitarian Principle of Geology that ‘the present is the key to the past’ suggests that study of modern sediments, processes and depositional environments can be used to understand and explain ancient sediments. The same may be said of geophysics; examination of the seismic signatures of modern sediments can be applied, by analogy, to the interpretation of the seismic record of ancient sediments. High resolution seismic profiles from late Quaternary marginal-marine and reefal environments of the Queensland continental shelf are presented. It is suggested that a study of the seismic response of these modern sediments, which are uncon-solidated and free from the effects of tectonism, can assist in the genetic interpretation of petroleum seismic data.

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Keyword(s): facies; Queensland shelf; reflection seismic; sedimentation; seismic stratigraphy

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