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First SEG President Donald C. Barton


GRC recording truck


Conoco geophysics department, 1926


GRC field crew, 1929


Frank Searcy


SSC Crew


Developing Record


Torsion Balance


H.B. Peacock


Roland Beers


GSI in Arabia


GSI in Arabia


shot hole drilling


vibrators


galvanometer camera


seismic shot


Arabian Crew


loading


loading


LaCosted


Crawford


Worzel


Robinson


Treitel


Hubbert


Mayne


SEG office


GSI founders


TIAC


Playboy Lounge


Robinson


Dobrin


vibro winners


C. Hewitt Dix


Memorializing reflection


Karcher


Ku Kung-hso


Carino


LA here I come


Gravity survey


History in the making


Greenland


Nepal


Tarim Basin


North Sea


Air-gun array


Indonesia


Abu Dhabi


West Texas


Swamp work


Hollywood


shot hole in Indonesia


Surveying in Arkansas


OBC


earthquake


Megacrop


1980 Steering Committee


processing center


Tarim Basin


SEG President Red Olander cuts the ribbon at the dedication at the Cecil and Ida Green Tower in 1985.


seiscrop


ice saw


Early workstation


New algorithms highlighting fault-surface discontinuities significantly accelerates the interpretation process.


Well log data used to generate synthetic trace is then compared with conventional seismic data.


Asset team integration across domains, incorporating data of all scales, provides a more complete understanding of the subsurface.


Cluster based visualization techniques allow manipulation of huge seismic volumes in 3D space.


The first seismic recording instrument in China (1949), a portable set manufactured by the Technical Instrument Company.


The first Chinese seismic crew and the Failing-300 shot-hole drilling truck.


Picture of Mr. Newlun, chief engineer of the Technical Instrument Company, standing behind an instrument truck equipped with the recording set they made.


Laying electrode cables.


AMT readings taken with digital receiver.


AMT readings taken with digital receiver.


AMT readings taken with digital receiver.


Burying an AMT receiver antenna to protect the very sensitive equipment from wind related vibrations.


AMT readings taken with digital receiver.


Exploration seismograph party, Oklahoma, USA, August 1921.


First temporary officers of Geophysical Society of Tulsa, 1947.


William W. Butler, designer of the winning SEG crest in 1952.


3D circa 1984


New SEG crest, redesigned in 1998.


GSI charter


Drilling for charges


GSI field crews


Karcher


McDermott


Recording truck


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Seismogram


Ida and Cecil Green


Dorothy and Lewis Ramsey


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San Lorenzo


GSI crew


Sumatra, 1938


GSI advertisement, 1941


Al Morel, 1930


GSI machine shop


3-D cross section


DFS9000


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Bucy and seisMAC


TIAC, 1964


Barton


Paul Weaver


Eugene McDermott


E.E. Rosaire


B.B. Weatherby


L.W. Blau


J.C. Karcher


F.M. Kannenstine


E. A. Eckhardt


Born


Peacock


Frank Goldstone


Wyckoff


Rust


Cortes


Jakowsky


Green


Nettleton


Gilmour


Wagoner


Hammer


Johnson


Roy Lay


Lyons


Dunlap


Bennett


Clifford


McCollum


Hall


Woods


Faust


Hollister


Christie


Thralls


Kendall


Smith


White


Mayne


Dobrin


Robinson


Savit


Allen


Kidder


Skelton


Rice


Lindseth


Northwood


Crook


Backus


Barry


Barman


Brumbaugh


LaFehr


Olander


Hewitt


Graebner


Lawyer


Larner


Dawson


Grant


French


Bone


Schoenberger


Robertson


Greve


Hilterman


Bridges


Russell


Barkhouse


Zinke


Lynn


Bahorich


Duncan


Beasley


Young


Cecil Green


Digital streamer


Shooting boat


Arctic Explorer



Sonic


Paradigm photos


Seismic plot


In-line


Magnifying seismic data


Shotline


Line section


Dynamic color


Magnifying glass


Interactive contouring


Complex model building

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