Converted-wave seismic exploration: Methods

Geophysics

Volumn 67, Issue 5, 2002, Pages 1348-1363

  Stewart, Robert R ^a   Gaiser, James E ^b   Brown, R James ^a   Lawton, Don C ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALGARY   (Canada)

^b WESTERNGECO   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANISOTROPY; HYDROPHONES; MICROPHONES; WAVES; ACOUSTIC FIELDS; ACOUSTIC WAVE PROPAGATION; ACOUSTIC WAVES; DATA ACQUISITION; GEOPHYSICAL PROSPECTING; SEISMIC PROSPECTING; SEISMIC WAVES; SEISMOLOGY; SHEAR WAVES; SURVEYS; VELOCITY;

SEISMIC EXPLORATION; ANISOTROPIC ROTATION; GEOPHYSICAL TECHNIQUES; PRE-STACK MIGRATION; RECORDING CHANNELS; SEISMIC RECORDING; SEISMIC WAVEFIELDS; SYNTHETIC SEISMOGRAM;

SEISMOLOGY; ACOUSTIC WAVE REFLECTION;

HYDROCARBON EXPLORATION; P-WAVE; S-WAVE; SEISMIC REFLECTION; SEISMIC WAVE;

EID: 0036747674     PISSN: 00168033     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1190/1.1512781     Document Type: Article

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