Effects of fractures on NMO velocities and P-wave azimuthal AVO response

Geophysics

Volumn 67, Issue 3, 2002, Pages 711-726

  Shen, Feng ^a,b   Zhu, Xiang ^a   Toksöz, M Nafi ^a  

^a MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^b PEKING UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANISOTROPY; BANDWIDTH; DISTORTION (WAVES); FRACTURE; POISSON RATIO; SHEAR WAVES; ASPECT RATIO; PETROLEUM RESERVOIRS; SEISMIC WAVES; SEISMOLOGY; VELOCITY; WAVE PROPAGATION;

FRACTURE DENSITY; AZIMUTHAL VARIATIONS; FINITE DIFFERENCE MODEL; FRACTURED RESERVOIR; INSTANTANEOUS BANDWIDTH; INSTANTANEOUS FREQUENCY; QUANTITATIVE CHARACTERIZATION; RESERVOIR THICKNESS; SHEAR WAVE SPLITTING;

GEOPHYSICS; CRACKS;

AVO METHOD; FRACTURED MEDIUM; HYDROCARBON RESERVOIR; P-WAVE; RESERVOIR CHARACTERIZATION; SEISMIC VELOCITY;

EID: 0036564834     PISSN: 00168033     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1190/1.1484514     Document Type: Article

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