Weak elastic-wave scattering from massive sulfide orebodies

Geophysics

Volumn 64, Issue 1, 1999, Pages 289-299

  Eaton, David W ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN ONTARIO   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

APPROXIMATION THEORY; BACKSCATTERING; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DATA REDUCTION; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; NUMERICAL ANALYSIS; ORE DEPOSITS; SEISMIC PROSPECTING; SEISMIC WAVES; BORN APPROXIMATION; DEPOSITS; ELASTIC WAVES; NUMERICAL MODELS; PYRITES; SEISMOLOGY; SULFUR COMPOUNDS; ZINC SULFIDE;

BORN APPROXIMATION METHOD; MASSIVE SULFIDE ORE BODIES; WEAK ELASTIC-WAVE SCATTERING; ECONOMICALLY VIABLE; ELASTIC WAVE SCATTERING; ELLIPSOIDAL INCLUSIONS; MATHEMATICAL FORMALISM; SEISMIC FREQUENCIES; SPECULAR REFLECTIONS; SPHERICAL INCLUSION; VERTICAL SEISMIC PROFILING;

SEISMOLOGY; ORE DEPOSITS;

MASSIVE SULFIDE; ORE BODY; SEISMIC WAVE; WAVE SCATTERING;

EID: 0032968388     PISSN: 00168033     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1190/1.1444525     Document Type: Article

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