Using seismic crosswell surveys to determine the aperture of partially water-saturated fractures

Geophysics

Volumn 64, Issue 1, 1999, Pages 13-23

  Kaelin, Bruno ^a   Johnson, Lane R ^a  

^a LAWRENCE BERKELEY NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BOREHOLES; FRACTURING (OIL WELLS); FRACTURING FLUIDS; INJECTION (OIL WELLS); LIMESTONE; SEISMIC WAVES;

FRACTURE APERTURES;

SEISMOLOGY;

CROSSHOLE SEISMIC METHOD; FRACTURE APERTURE; FRACTURE FLOW; HYDRAULIC FRACTURE; HYDROGEOLOGY;

EID: 0033004499     PISSN: 00168033     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1190/1.1444511     Document Type: Article

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