Acoustic and elastic properties of calcareous sediments across a siliceous diagenetic front on the eastern U.S. continental slope

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 23, Issue 19, 1996, Pages 2697-2700

  Guerin, Gilles ^a   Goldberg, Dave ^a  

^a Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTIC PROPERTIES; ACOUSTIC WAVE VELOCITY; COASTAL ZONES; DENSITY (SPECIFIC GRAVITY); ELASTICITY; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; POROSITY; SHEAR STRENGTH; ACOUSTIC LOGGING; ELASTIC MODULI; OFFSHORE DRILLING; VELOCITY; WELL LOGGING;

SEDIMENTS; SHEAR FLOW;

ACOUSTIC PROPERTIES; BOREHOLE LOGGING; CALCAREOUS SEDIMENT; CARBONATE SEDIMENTS; CONSOLIDATION; DIAGENESIS; DIAGENETIC FRONT; ELASTIC PROPERTIES; POROSITY; SILICEOUS DIAGENETIC FRONT;

ATLANTIC, NEW JERSEY CONTINENTAL SLOPE, ODP HOLE 904A;

CALCAREOUS SEDIMENTS; COMPRESSIONAL VELOCITIES; CONTINENTAL SLOPE; ELASTIC PROPERTIES; OCEAN DRILLING PROGRAMS; SENSITIVE INDICATOR; SHEAR VELOCITIES; SONIC VELOCITY;

EID: 0030240006     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/96GL02188     Document Type: Article

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