A generalized form of Snell's law in anisotropic media

Geophysics

Volumn 65, Issue 2, 2000, Pages 632-637

  Slawinski, Michael A ^a   Slawinski, Raphaël A ^a   Brown, R James ^a   Parkin, John M ^b,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALGARY   (Canada)

^b Baker Atlas International Inc   (Canada)

^c ENCANA CORPORATION   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANISOTROPIC MEDIUM; REFRACTION; SEISMIC WAVE;

ANISOTROPY; LITHOLOGY; SHEAR WAVES;

AMPLITUDE VARIATION WITH OFFSETS; ANALYTIC EXPRESSIONS; CONVERTED WAVE; GEOMETRICAL PROPERTY; GRADIENT OPERATORS; PLANAR INTERFACE; RAY TRAJECTORIES; SLOWNESS SURFACES;

ANISOTROPIC MEDIA;

EID: 0034108987     PISSN: 00168033     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1190/1.1444759     Document Type: Article

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