Abstract

Acquiring seismic reflection data in Himalayan Foot Hill is one of the challenging jobs for surface geophysicist due to its complex tectonic setting. Rough topographic condition with steep hill, thick thorny shrubs, pine trees and other logistic hindrances are the major disadvantage for better data qualities. The compactness and hardness of exposed rocks depend upon the type of the rocks formation. For these reasons, it is very difficult to choose a medium for blasting the energy source below the Low Velocity Layer (LVL). Frequent Uphole survey and experimentation for charge and depth are essential to find a shooting medium. Ghosting and interference effects are also prominent in this area.