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Depth to refractor beneath each geophone rather than at shot points only as in the intercept method
Figure.1
Where tR is the total time along EBCG or GCBE (these are reciprocal times).
(Note: lower case t refers to times that can be measured from time-distance plots; uppercase T refers to delay times.)
By definition,
Observe that there is no slant path in layer V1 for BC, and so it has no delay-time
component
Substituting, So,
By definition,
This equation shows that if one knows V1 , V2 , TG then
one can obtain the depth below geophone G
By trigonometry, we can demonstrate that But just a minute!
We cannot measure TG directly
and
The traveltime from EF to G (tEG ) is measured on a field
seismogram and is plotted on a time-distance graph.
for a geophone situated between EF dan EG This gives delay-time entirely in terms of measurable
quantities that can be obtained from a plot of T(x).
Assumptions 4. distances traveled on refractor are approximately equal to
surface distances:
1. The drawing on the left, not the drawing on the right:
1. Plot forward and reversed traveltimes. Use only the geophone locations that record both forward and reverse
refractions.
The corresponding forward and reverse raypaths to geophone G are shown below.
2. Calculate tEFG and tERG for locations in 2)
4. calculate
5. calculate