Consolidation still needed

In the days when geophysicists were known as doodlebuggers and preferred to lay their generally unkempt heads on a table, so as to take an oblique and inspirational view of seismic print-outs, there was an art and a mystique to the seismic business. Things have changed a lot. Geophysicists may not have tidied up much since, but the technology has, writes Nigel Ash