Velocity dispersion: A tool for characterizing reservoir rocks

Geophysics

Volumn 62, Issue 2, 1997, Pages 477-486

  Brown, Raymon L ^a   Seifert, Dirk ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OKLAHOMA   (United States)

^b HERIOT WATT UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANISOTROPY; ELECTROMAGNETIC DISPERSION; ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVE ATTENUATION; ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVE SCATTERING; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; PARAMETER ESTIMATION; ROCKS; SAND; SANDSTONE; SEISMOLOGY; SHALE; VELOCITY MEASUREMENT;

CROSS WELL RESPONSE; HORIZONTAL PATH LOG; SONIC LOGS; VELOCITY DISPERSION; VERTICAL SEISMIC PROFILES;

GEOPHYSICS;

ELASTIC SCATTERING; RESERVOIR CHARACTERIZATION; SANDSTONE; SEISMIC ATTENUATION; SEISMIC VELOCITY; VELOCITY DISPERSION;

EID: 0031103421     PISSN: 00168033     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1190/1.1444158     Document Type: Article

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