Effects of attenuation and anisotropy on reflection amplitude versus offset

Geophysics

Volumn 63, Issue 5, 1998, Pages 1652-1658

  Carcione, José M ^a   Helle, Hans B ^b   Zhao, Tong ^c  

^a ISTITUTO NAZIONALE DI OCEANOGRAFIA E DI GEOFISICA SPERIMENTALE OGS   (Italy)

^b STATOIL   (Norway)

^c CHINA NATIONAL PETROLEUM CORPORATION   (China)

Author keywords

Anisotropy; Attenuation; AVO method; Seismic method

Indexed keywords

ANISOTROPY; ATTENUATION; INTERFACES (MATERIALS); ROCKS; SEISMIC WAVES; WAVE TRANSMISSION;

AMPLITUDE VARIATION WITH OFFSET (AVO); REFLECTION COEFFICIENTS;

SEISMOLOGY;

ANISOTROPY; AVO METHOD; SEISMIC METHOD;

EID: 0032171974     PISSN: 00168033     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1190/1.1444461     Document Type: Article

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