Gassmann modeling of acoustic properties of sand-clay mixtures

Pure and Applied Geophysics

Volumn 157, Issue 5, 2000, Pages 811-827

  Gurevich, Boris ^a   Carcione, José M ^b  

^a GEOPHYSICAL INSTITUTE OF ISRAEL   (Israel)

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

Author keywords

Clay content; Poroelasticity; Porous medium; Wave velocities

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTIC PROPERTY; ELASTIC WAVE; POROELASTICITY; POROUS MEDIUM; SANDY CLAY; SATURATED MEDIUM; WAVE VELOCITY;

EID: 0034046261     PISSN: 00334553     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/pl00001119     Document Type: Article

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