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Volume 26 Number 3
  • E-ISSN: 1365-2478

Abstract

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In western Canada, the near surface weathered zone has variable velocity and is underlain by more uniform subweathering material. The uphole time is often used to compensate for the weathered zone, but there are limitations to its use.

A method is proposed using the refraction delay time which is exactly proportional to the weathering correction time for several commonly assumed weathering velocity functions. The method does not require accurate determination of velocities or weathering depth nor even the depth of shot, yet is theoretically exact. A strip off time is used to replace the weathered zone mathematically with high velocity material where = z/, where is the delay time and the Blondeau factor.

An algorithm using first break times is proposed that is amenable to computer use for determining for each geophone point.

might be constant in some areas but is more likely a variable to be solved in an automatic static program. Thus, structure and residual statics can be handled at once.

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