Overpressure detection from compressional- and shear-wave data

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 26, Issue 22, 1999, Pages 3417-3420

  Dvorkin, Jack ^a   Mavko, Gary ^a   Nur, Amos ^a  

^a Petrophysical Consulting Inc   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MATHEMATICAL MODELS; POISSON RATIO; PORE PRESSURE; SHEAR WAVES;

ROOM-DRY ROCKS;

ROCK MECHANICS; SHEAR FLOW;

ELASTIC WAVE; OVERPRESSURE; POISSON RATIO; PORE PRESSURE; SEISMIC VELOCITY;

COMPRESSIONAL; CROSS-WELL; DIFFERENTIAL PRESSURES; DRY ROCKS; EFFECTIVE MEDIUM MODEL; GAS SATURATED ROCK; OVERPRESSURE; SONIC LOGS;

EID: 0033570565     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/1999GL008382     Document Type: Article

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