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Tomography in reflection seismology

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Tomographic inversion plays a significant part in depth imaging in the seismic oil exploration industry. This should probably be mentioned briefly. 136.250.232.88 13:45, 12 May 2006 (UTC) Robruss24 13:45, 12 May 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Move from "tomography" to "imaging"

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I'm requesting this move since tomography is more of a medical term, and is unnecessarily jargon. Imaging is far more intuitive, and is more popular:

Google search Count
"seismic tomography" 198,000
"seismic imaging" 260,000

Also, I'm starting a new article called Geophysical imaging, showcasing the different geophysical techniques.+mwtoews 23:35, 16 February 2007 (UTC)[reply]

I would vote no on this. Seismic tomography is a subset of seismic imaging that relies on using forward-scattered energy to map long-wavelength variations in the Earth's seismic velocity. Seismic imaging also incorporates reflection seismology techniques (analogous to ultrasound imaging in medicine) that use back-scattered energy. Adrock828 09:50, 20 August 2007 (UTC)[reply]

WikiProject class rating

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This article was automatically assessed because at least one WikiProject had rated the article as stub, and the rating on other projects was brought up to Stub class. BetacommandBot 10:03, 10 November 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Velocity of what?

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The word "velocity" in the lede is confusing. To the layman, it seems to mean that only parts of the earth that are moving relative to the earth as a whole can be imaged. Geologists would of course know that it refers to the velocity of the seismic waves, but not everyone who reads this is a geologist. Zyxwv99 (talk) 03:30, 20 June 2014 (UTC)[reply]

I've linked it to speed of sound. The more obvious seismic velocity is unfortunately a redirect to seismic wave, which scarcely mentions velocity at all - we probably should have an article on that. Mikenorton (talk) 07:07, 20 June 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Broken link?

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I think the link for reference 2 is broken? Landtech Enterprises seems to have a new URL. Darthmaluus (talk) 19:25, 1 July 2015 (UTC)[reply]

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