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Quantitative analysis of land multiple reflected refractions
TONG LIN1 ,
CHAOBIN GUO2 ,
SONGQI PAN1
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1
Department of Gas Geology, Research Institute of Petroleum Exploration and Development, PetroChina, Langfang 065007, P.R. China.,
2
Sinochem Petroleum Exploration & Production Co., Ltd., Beijing 100031, P.R. China.,
JSE 2019, 28(2), 163–173;
Submitted: 24 February 2018 | Accepted: 31 January 2019 | Published: 1 April 2019

© 2019 by the Authors. This article is an open access article distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution -Noncommercial 4.0 International License (CC-by the license) ( https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/ )
Abstract
Lin, T., Guo, C.B. and Pan, S.Q., 2019. Quantitative analysis of land multiple reflected refractions. Journal of Seismic Exploration, 28: 163-173. Multiple reflected refractions are an important wave phenomenon in shallow layer. predominantly in karst mountain area, or piedmont tectonic belt. In this paper, we discover the actual the actual propagation path of multiple reflected refractions, and discuss the characteristics of multiple reflected refractions by math formula derivation, including the kinematic and dynamic issues. The results show that the study of multiple reflected refractions is of great significance to understand seismic refractions.
Keywords
multiple reflected refractions
propagation path
kinematic and dynamic characteristics
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