Abstract

Conventional seismic data processing, whether it be pre-stack data conditioning or migration, is designed with the theory of P-wave reflected energy in-mind, for travel paths involving only a single reflection. Any energy propagating with other modes or travel paths will not be dealt with appropriately during conventional seismic data processing. It is primarily for this reason that we spend so much time pre-conditioning seismic data, so as to meet the assumptions of the subsequent migration. In this study, looking at shallow-water marine data from high velocity- contrast environments (such as found with basalt or carbonates), I assess the behaviour of some other classes seismic energy, when subjected to conventional processing, so as to better understand the anomalous events appearing in migrated CRP gathers and images, due to contamination of the data with remnant refraction and mode-converted energy