Scaling and seismic reflectivity: implications of scaling on AVO

AVO analysis of seismic data is based on the assumption that transitions in the earth consist of jump discontinuities only. Generalization of these transitions to more realistic transitions shows a drastic change in observed AVO behavior, especially for the large angles currently attained by increasing cable lengths. We propose a simple ities. After renormalization, the inverted fluctuations regain their relative magnitudes which, due to the scaling, may have been significantly distorted.