Abstract
Hydrocarbon accumulations sometimes have effects on seismic data that can be used to indicate their location. The recognition of such indications is called direct detection, although the line of reasoning is often far from direct. The most prominent of these indicators is often a marked increase in amplitude or a bright spot (see figure 1.3), but the entire set of hydrocarbon indicators is sometimes included in the name “bright spot.” Bright-spot detection came to the forefront in the early 1970s; it is now regarded as a subset of seismic stratigraphy.
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© 1980 Robert E. and Margaret S. Sheriff
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Sheriff, R.E. (1980). Hydrocarbon Indicators. In: Seismic Stratigraphy. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-011-6395-8_9
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