Twelve years of vertical birefringence in nine-component VSP data

Geophysics

Volumn 66, Issue 2, 2001, Pages 582-597

  Winterstein, Donald F ^a   De, Gopa S ^c   Meadows, Mark A ^b  

^a 4th Wave Imaging Corporation ^*  (United States)

^b 4th Wave Imaging Corporation   (United States)

^c CHEVRON ENERGY TECHNOLOGY COMPANY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANISOTROPY; BIREFRINGENCE; DATA ACQUISITION; FRACTURE; HYDROCARBONS; SEDIMENTARY ROCKS; SEISMOLOGY; SEISMIC PROSPECTING; SEISMIC WAVES; SHEAR FLOW; SHEAR WAVES;

AZIMUTHAL ANISOYROPY; AZIMUTHAL ANISOTROPY; BIREFRINGENCE PATTERNS; CROSSED DIPOLES; HYDROCARBON RESERVOIR; MULTICOMPONENTS; SURFACE REFLECTIONS; VERTICAL SEISMIC PROFILES; VERTICAL SHEAR;

GEOPHYSICS; BIREFRINGENCE;

AZIMUTH; BIREFRINGENCE; S-WAVE; SEISMIC VELOCITY;

EID: 0035269807     PISSN: 00168033     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1190/1.1444950     Document Type: Article

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