Acknowledgments

We would like to thank the editors, three anonymous reviewers, and T. Alkhalifah for constructive comments. We would like to also thank the sponsors of the Texas Consortium for Computational Seismology (TCCS) for financial support. This work is also supported by the European Research Council (ERC) under the European Union's Seventh Framework Programme (FP/2007-2013) grant agreement number 320639 (iGEO). We are grateful to the Exploration Development Geophysics Education and Research (EDGER) and BP America for their permission to use SEAM Phase II unconventional model in this study. The authors also acknowledge and thank Paradigm University Grant Program of Emerson E&P Software for the use of Paradigm Echos^TM for SEAM data processing in this project. The first author was additionally supported by the Statoil Fellows Program at the University of Texas at Austin.