Narrow-band spectral analysis and thin-bed tuning

Running window seismic spectral decomposition has proven to be a very power ful tool in analyzing difficult-to-delineate thin-bed tuning effects associ ated with variable-thickness sand channels, fans, and bars along an interpr eted seismic horizon or time slice. Unfortunately, direct application of sp ectral decomposition to a large 3-D data set can result in a rather unwield y 4-D cube of data. We develop a suite of new seismic attributes that reduc es the input 20-60 running window spectral components down to a workable su bset that allows us to quickly map thin-bed tuning effects in three dimensi ons. We demonstrate the effectiveness of these new attributes by applying them t o a large Spec survey from the Gulf of Mexico. These two thin-bed seismic a ttributes provide a fast, economic tool that, when coupled with other attri butes such as seismic coherence and when interpreted within the framework o f geomorphology and sequence stratigraphy, can help us quickly evaluate lar ge 3-D seismic surveys. Ironically, in addition to being more quantitativel y linked to bed thickness, the thin-bed attributes described here allow us to analyze thicker features than the conventional instantaneous and respons e frequencies, which cannot calculate the spectral interference between two well-separated reflectors.