Adverse Effects of an Edge Diffractor in Seismic Reflection Interferometry

To understand steeply dipping events in seismic reflection interferometry (SRI), we derived an expression that describes the difference in travel time (Δτ) from a diffractor to two receivers in two dimensions. For a fixed receiver interval, the expression shows that Δτ is zero when the diffractor is at the midpoint of the paired receivers, increases with an apparent velocity of half the medium velocity as the diffractor moves toward either...