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Larue et al. 1991
Larue, D.K., Anderson, R.N., Goldberg, D. and Moos, D. (1991). Origin of reflectors in seismic line 2, Toa Baja, Small gas horizons associated with enhanced reflector amplitudes, and recognizing leaky and sealing faults using gas chromatography data. Geophysical Research Letters 18: doi: 10.1029/91GL00395. issn: 0094-8276.

Reflectors imaged in a multichannel seismic line at Toa Baja, Puerto Rico, were studied by comparing the positions of reflection events with changes in rock properties determined through analysis of logs and cuttings. Reflectors appear to be associated primarily with changes in rock properties across facies or formation boundaries, and more rarely unconformites and faults. Faults that seal versus faults that leak can be recognized on the basis of gas chromatograph data. Several latterally discontinuous reflectors characterized by modest amplitude anomalies seem to correlate in depth with minor shows of methane gas, measured by onsite gas chromatography. Gas was not recognizeable using geophysical logs indicating small quantities. The gas is apparently associated with rock types and rock properties which affect reflector amplitude rather than directly enhancing reflector amplitude. ¿American Geophysical Union 1991

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Exploration Geophysics, Seismic methods, Marine Geology and Geophysics, Marine seismics, Physical Properties of Rocks, Permeability and porosity, Tectonophysics, Composition and state of the Earth's interior
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Geophysical Research Letters
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