Research on prediction of buried mountain fractures in the N zone of the South China Sea based on fault signal enhancement processing

TianYu GUO, XiaoJun XIONG, Ming LI, Chao WANG

Prog Geophy ›› 2025, Vol. 40 ›› Issue (4) : 1639-1648.

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Prog Geophy ›› 2025, Vol. 40 ›› Issue (4) : 1639-1648. DOI: 10.6038/pg2025II0308

Research on prediction of buried mountain fractures in the N zone of the South China Sea based on fault signal enhancement processing

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The complex buried fracture zone in the N-region of the South China Sea presents significant challenges for fracture prediction due to its deep burial, weak seismic reflection signals, steep dips, and low-frequency characteristics. Conventional fracture prediction methods often fail to accurately delineate the fracture development zones and their distribution patterns. This study proposes a novel complex buried fracture zone prediction technique suitable for the area, focusing on fault signal enhancement processing. First, the seismic data undergoes structure-oriented filtering, followed by texture filtering using a grayscale co-occurrence matrix calculated along different directions. This yields fracture-sensitive data volumes in multiple orientations, which are then enhanced through coherence processing. The optimal fracture-sensitive data volume is selected, and multi-attribute fusion is performed by combining coherence enhancement and curvature. In application to the study area, this method outperforms single coherence enhancement and curvature results, providing a more detailed representation of fracture zones at various scales and clearly depicting fault characteristics, and improve the accuracy of fracture prediction.

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Structure-oriented filtering / Gray level co-occurrence matrix / Texture filtering / Coherence volume / Fracture enhancement

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TianYu GUO , XiaoJun XIONG , Ming LI , et al. Research on prediction of buried mountain fractures in the N zone of the South China Sea based on fault signal enhancement processing[J]. Progress in Geophysics. 2025, 40(4): 1639-1648 https://doi.org/10.6038/pg2025II0308

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