Synthesis of multicomponent quasi-P and converted quasi-P-S seismograms for intersecting fracture systems

Geophysics

Volumn 65, Issue 4, 2000, Pages 1261-1271

  Ortega, Andrey A ^a   McMechan, George A ^b  

^a PDVSA INTEVEP   (Venezuela)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT DALLAS   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTIC WAVE PROPAGATION; ALGORITHMS; ANISOTROPY; EIGENVALUES AND EIGENFUNCTIONS; GREEN'S FUNCTION; LIGHT POLARIZATION; RAY TRACING; RUNGE KUTTA METHODS; SEISMOGRAPHS; STIFFNESS MATRIX; ANISOTROPIC MEDIA; COMPUTATION THEORY; CRACK PROPAGATION; GREEN COMPUTING; ORTHOGONAL FUNCTIONS; SEISMIC WAVES; SEISMOLOGY; SHEAR FLOW; SHEAR WAVES; WAVE PROPAGATION;

DRY VERTICAL FRACTURE; DYNAMIC RAY SHOOTING; KINEMATIC QUASIWAVE PROPAGATION; QUASIWAVE SPLITTING; THREE COMPONENT SEISMOGRAM; THREE DIMENSIONAL HETEROGENEOUS ANISOTROPIC MEDIA; ANALYTICAL EXPRESSIONS; FRACTURE ORIENTATIONS; HORIZONTAL TRANSVERSE ISOTROPIES; INTERSECTING FRACTURES; ORTHORHOMBIC SYMMETRY; SECOND ORDER SCATTERING; SHEAR WAVE SPLITTING; STIFFNESS CONSTANTS;

SEISMOLOGY; FRACTURE;

SEISMIC ANISOTROPY; SYNTHETIC SEISMOGRAM;

EID: 0034233204     PISSN: 00168033     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1190/1.1444817     Document Type: Article

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