Talk:Seismic source

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[edit] Need for cleanup and General revision of Geophysics in WP

The article needs to be rewritten to be more consistent after its production as an assembly of individual articles. E.g. a thumper truck is a piece of apparatus but Vibroseis is a method. There seem to be unnecessary repetitions of "refraction" and "reflection". "Seismic source", here implicitly related to geophysical prospecting, could even be a good old-fashioned earthquake, there is in WP a noticeable lack of articles about the esoteric art of doodlebugging, for example one general heading (I can't find it again) redirects to the limited Archaeological geophysics which article goes on at great length about methods and processing which are applicable to all geophysics and not limited to finding ruins.
Why are explosives called "crude" while thumpimg is not? In an article on Seismic Source explosives should have more than a one line dismissal.. in holes/at sea/on the surface/up Poulter's sticks... dynamite/detonating cord/gas guns
Some verbs do not agree on number with subjects.--SilasW (talk) 17:16, 29 December 2007 (UTC)

Feel free to do it yourself, be WP:Bold MickMacNee (talk) 16:08, 30 December 2007 (UTC)

By the way, 95% of the time an academic seismologist talks about seismic sources, it refers to earthquakes, so this article is a bit misdirected. Also, synthetic refers to generated by a computer, artificial is physical but manmade. John (talk) 13:59, 3 March 2008 (UTC)

Thanks for the clarifications. The article was originally Air gun (seismic), and has moved on and merged to that title since—focusing on artificial sources. (I was raised in Calgary where usually geophysicists refer to the artificial variety). You could add a section on natural sources, and elaborate more if you wish. (And yes, the clean-up is somewhere on my to-do list.) I suppose notable differences between natural vs artificial, besides the obvious, are the shape of the source wavelets, and their distribution (i.e., point versus distributed). +mt 15:28, 3 March 2008 (UTC)