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Seismic Source and Receiver:


15 cu. inch Water Gun

Benthos AQ-4 Hydrophone Streamer

The water gun data was recorded using Xseismics on a MASSCOMP system. Xseismics is a software/hardware package that consisted of Concurrent Computer Corp. Unix based data collection system. This included a 12 bit Analog / Digital converter, an X window display, 8mm tape device, network interface etc. The software was developed inhouse. This software controlled the data collection system, logged SEGY format seismic data and also displayed seismic data on the X terminal.


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