A research on seismic forward modeling of hydrothermal dolomite：An example from Maokou formation in Wolonghe structure, eastern Sichuan Basin, SW China

Abstract

To solve the problem of multi-resulted in seismic responses brought by dual impacts of the thickness and the lithologic association for further research of seismic response characteristics of hydrothermal dolomite, significant efforts have been made, which were based on the study of dolomite, the Maokou formation in the eastern Sichuan Basin, to conduct an analysis of mineral composition, strata distribution and dolomitization in its area, to develop layered medium models in accordance with different dolomitization degrees and thicknesses, and to build standardized wedge models for the full display of that in binary changes. Moreover, an essential application of the pre-stack and post-stack seismic forward modeling have been performed for analyzing how different dolomitization degrees and thicknesses had influences on the seismic response characteristics of hydrothermal dolomite. Given this, the sensitive seismic attributes of the target interval in the study area have been selected preferentially by analyzing the seismic response characteristics of hydrothermal dolomite, which plays a critical role in the entire process. The results show that?1. The response characteristic of amplitude is greatly influenced by the dolomitization degree and bed thickness?2. The dolomitization degree constitutes a transformation of AVO response characteristics from II to IV, while the variation of thickness leads to a transformation of AVO response characteristics from IV to II. 3. The actual results indicate that the relative fluid factor FF is one of the most sensitive AVO attributes, and the predicted results are in par with the actual results.

Keywords

• hydrothermal dolomite
• dolomitization
• forward modeling
• avo modeling
• response characteristics