This article is retracted at the request of the authors and with the approval of the Editor-in-Chief of Journal of Seismic Exploration. The article was originally published while the journal was still under the management of the former publisher, prior to its acquisition by AccScience Publishing.
The prime reason for this retraction is duplicate publication of the same article, which arose from an unintentional error committed by the authors and an editorial oversight in the former publisher’s workflow. During the proofreading process, the authors inadvertently uploaded a different manuscript—the one intended for submission to another journal—onto the submission platform. Due to an editorial oversight at that time, the wrongly uploaded manuscript was published without proper article verification in the Journal of Seismic Exploration, while the previously accepted manuscript (Dong H, Ba J, Zhang M, Carcione J M, Pang M, Tan W. 3D rock-physics templates for estimating the reservoir properties of interbedded sandstone and shale thin layers) was not published. The wrongly uploaded manuscript was intended for submission to the Journal of Geophysics and Engineering and has been published therein (doi: 10.1093/jge/gxae076).
All authors are aware of this issue and agree to this retraction.