Shot gathers, common midpoint gathers, and stacks

Railsback's Petroleum Geoscience and Subsurface Geology

1. Collection of data in the field: seven sequential shots

2. Shot gathers

3. Shot gathers after

statics correction

4. One common
midpoint gather

5. Same common
midpoint gather after
correction for normal
moveout (Alternately,
this step may be done
earlier in the sequence.)

(Note delay
through extra
vertical distance)

6. Stacking to give
one vertical trace of
a seismic section

Shotpoint
(a six-fold stack,which
would be a small fold)

(Note delay
through lacustrine fill)

7. After doing Parts

4 though 6 for all the
common midpoints:

Geophones

8. Abandoning the
colors, we have a
seismic section: