Translations:Introduction - Chapter 8/3/en

We assume that a seismic trace has been corrected for amplitude decay resulting from spherical spreading over the seismic time scale of interest (say, for example, from 0 to 6 s). However, in reality, other effects also must be considered. One such effect is inelastic absorption — the loss of seismic energy to frictionally generated heat. (We will treat inelastic absorption in Chapter 14.) We must consider the effect of the seismic energy’s source. In addition, effects result from the instrumentation; source and instrument effects are manmade at or near the surface of the ground. We lump these surface effects together in the form of a source wavelet, which we denote by s.