“…An important application is to highlight fault discontinuities for seismic data interpretation. For this purpose, other discontinuities are considered noise and should be removed ͑Ashbridge et al, 2000;Pedersen et al, 2002;AlBinHassan and Marfurt, 2003͒. Faults tend to be more planar and steeply dipping than other causes of seismic discontinuity. This provides the basis for a seismic-discontinuity data filter that passes only those discontinuities that likely represent faults.…”