Parameters controlling sonic velocities in a mixed carbonate-siliciclastics Permian shelf-margin (upper San Andres formation, Last Chance Canyon, New Mexico)

Geophysics

Volumn 62, Issue 2, 1997, Pages 505-520

  Kenter, Jeroen A M ^a   Podladchikov, F F ^a   Reinders, Marc ^a   Van Der Gaast, Sjierk J ^b   Fouke, Bruce W ^a   Sonnenfeld, Mark D ^c  

^a VU UNIVERSITY AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

^b Netherlands Inst of Marine Research   (Netherlands)

^c Department of Geology and Geological Engineering   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTIC PROPERTIES; ACOUSTIC WAVE VELOCITY MEASUREMENT; CARBONATE MINERALS; CARBONATION; EXPERIMENTAL MINERALOGY; MATHEMATICAL TRANSFORMATIONS; POROSITY; SEDIMENTARY ROCKS; SEDIMENTOLOGY; TEXTURES; ACOUSTIC WAVE VELOCITY; GEOCHEMISTRY; LITHOLOGY; PETROGRAPHY; STATISTICAL METHODS;

ACOUSTIC BEHAVIOR; CARBONATE CONTENT; CARBONATE MINERALOGIES; EFFECTIVE STRESS; EXPERIMENTAL CURVES; INTERCRYSTALLINE BOUNDARIES; MULTIVARIATE FITTING; TRANSMISSION PROPERTY;

VELOCITY; SEDIMENTARY ROCKS;

LINEAR MULTIVARIATE FITTING; PERMIAN SHELF MARGIN; POSTBURIAL DIAGENESIS; SILICICLASTICS;

ACOUSTIC BEHAVIOUR; ACOUSTICS; CARBONATE-SILICICLASTIC ROCK; CARBONATE/SILICICLASTIC ROCK; DIAGENESIS; MINERALOGY; PERMIAN; SEDIMENTARY ROCK; SONIC VELOCITY;

USA, NEW MEXICO, LAST CHANCE CANYON;

EID: 0031104608     PISSN: 00168033     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1190/1.1444161     Document Type: Article

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