Patent ID: 8360144

Claim:
A method for geophysical or stratigraphic interpretation of a subsurface region, comprising: (a) obtaining a volume of seismic data representative of the subsurface region, said seismic data comprising traces having amplitude and phase as a function of recording time; (b) computing a data volume of values of a wavelet-split attribute from the seismic data volume, a data volume being a discrete set of data samples wherein the subsurface region is subdivided into discrete cells, each cell having a single value of a data parameter, wherein a wavelet-split attribute is any seismic data attribute that indicates data volume cells where one seismic waveform is about to split into two separately distinguishable ones; (c) generating one or more objects (geobodies) from the wavelet-split attribute data volume; and (d) using the one or more objects to interpret structure or stratigraphy of the subsurface region or for quality control on seismic acquisition and processing.