Guidelines for building a detailed elastic depth model

Guidelines were developed for building a detailed elastic depth model by using an elastic synthetic seismogram that matched both prestack and stacked marine seismic data from the Gippsland Basin, Australia. Recomputing this synthetic for systematic variations upon the depth model provided insight into how each part of the model affected the synthetic. As a result, parameters in the depth model that have only a minor influence upon the synthetic were identified. Methods for estimating the parameters that are important were also established.