Detection of traveltime delay caused by inflation of a single artificial fracture

Geothermal Science and Technology

Volumn 6, Issue 1-4, 1999, Pages 181-200

  Tanaka, Katsuro ^a   Moriya, Hirokazu ^a   Asanuma, Hiroshi ^a   Niitsuma, Hiroaki ^a   Hayashi, Kazuo ^a  

^a TOHOKU UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Artificial fracture; Cross spectrum analysis; Crosshole seismic measurement; HDR; Process zone; Subsurface; Traveltime delay

Indexed keywords

FRACTURE; GEOTHERMAL FIELDS; MICROCRACKS; PRESSURE; PRESSURIZATION; SEISMOGRAPHS; SPECTRUM ANALYSIS; WAVES;

CROSS SPECTRUM METHOD; HOT WET ROCK; SEISMIC DETECTOR; SUBSURFACE ARTIFICIAL FRACTURE; TRAVELTIME DELAY;

HOT DRY ROCK SYSTEMS;

CROSSHOLE SEISMIC METHOD; FRACTURE; GEOTHERMAL SYSTEM; TRAVEL TIME;

EID: 0032840503     PISSN: 08905363     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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