Ultrasonic and numerical modeling of reflections from azimuthally anisotropic media

1996 SEG Annual Meeting

Volumn , Issue , 1996, Pages 1025-1028

  Gibson, Richard L ^a   Theophanis, Stephen ^b  

^a MIT Earth Resources Lab   (United States)

^b Science Research Laboratory   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANISOTROPY; BORN APPROXIMATION; FRACTURE; GREEN COMPUTING; NUMERICAL MODELS; SHEAR WAVES; SURFACE WAVES;

AZIMUTHAL ANISOTROPY; FRACTURED RESERVOIR; LABORATORY MODELS; LOCALIZED PERTURBATION; REALISTIC SIMULATION; REFLECTION POINTS; VELOCITY CONTRASTS; VELOCITY VARIATIONS;

ANISOTROPIC MEDIA;

EID: 0008150345     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1190/1.1826257     Document Type: Conference Paper

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