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1. n. [Geophysics]
One of a number of locations or stations at the surface of the Earth at which a
seismic
source
is activated.
See:
acquisition
,
amplitude variation with offset
,
common midpoint method
,
depth migration
,
dropout
,
fold
,
migration
,
offset
,
receiver
,
seismic record
,
seismogram
,
shot depth
,
spacing
,
spread
,
synthetic seismogram