Divergent and asymptotic nature of the time-offset Taner-Koehler series in reflection seismics

Geophysics

Volumn 67, Issue 6, 2002, Pages 1913-1919

  Ghosh, Santi Kumar ^a   Kumar, Prakash ^a  

^a NATIONAL GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (India)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DIVERGENCE; SEISMIC REFLECTION; TRAVEL TIME; WAVE PROPAGATION;

EID: 0036865687     PISSN: 00168033     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1190/1.1527091     Document Type: Article

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