Useful approximations for converted-wave AVO

Geophysics

Volumn 66, Issue 6, 2001, Pages 1721-1734

  Ramos, Antonio C B ^a   Castagna, John P ^b  

^a PETROBRAS   (Brazil)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OKLAHOMA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTIC NOISE; APPROXIMATION THEORY; ELASTICITY; ERROR ANALYSIS; SHEAR STRESS; ACOUSTIC WAVE VELOCITY; SEISMIC WAVES; SHEAR WAVES; WAVE PROPAGATION;

LOW CONTRAST APPROXIMATION; ELASTIC PARAMETERS; INCIDENCE ANGLES; LOW GAS SATURATION; P-WAVE VELOCITY; ROCK PROPERTIES; S-WAVE VELOCITY; SHEAR WAVE VELOCITY; ZOEPPRITZ EQUATIONS;

ACOUSTIC WAVE EFFECTS; SHEAR FLOW;

AVO METHOD; HYDROCARBON EXPLORATION; P-WAVE; SEISMIC DATA; SEISMIC VELOCITY;

EID: 0035518306     PISSN: 00168033     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1190/1.1487114     Document Type: Article

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