Paradigm Spectral Decomposition transforms seismic amplitude or attribute data to images of the subsurface, helping the interpreter detect thin beds or identify zones of attenuation. The procedure helps resolve “local” lithology properties of the seismic data by decomposing the seismic trace into different frequency bands using Gabor-Morley filters. The decomposition results in multiple trace outputs for each input trace, where each output trace corresponds to a limited band of frequencies. This time-variant frequency decomposition process illuminates the subsurface with different frequency bands, so that that bed thicknesses and zones of attenuation can be more easily resolved.