Determining formation shear-wave transverse isotropy from borehole Stoneley-wave measurements

Geophysics

Volumn 68, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 118-126

  Tang, Xiaoming ^a  

^a BAKER ATLAS   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANISOTROPY; DATA REDUCTION; FREQUENCIES; ROCKS; ACOUSTIC LOGGING; ACOUSTICS; BOREHOLES; ELASTIC MODULI; GEOPHYSICAL PROSPECTING; INVERSE PROBLEMS; SEISMIC WAVES; SEISMOLOGY; SHALE; SHEAR WAVES; WAVE PROPAGATION;

TRANSVERSE ISOTROPY (TI); CALIBRATION PROCEDURE; DISPERSION CURVES; GEOPHYSICAL TECHNIQUES; PARAMETER PROFILE; SHEAR-WAVE ANISOTROPY; TRANSVERSE ISOTROPY; TRANSVERSELY ISOTROPIC; WEIGHTED AVERAGES;

SHEAR WAVES; SHEAR FLOW;

BOREHOLE GEOPHYSICS; ISOTROPY; SEISMIC ANISOTROPY; SEISMIC WAVE; STONELEY WAVE;

EID: 0037217499     PISSN: 00168033     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1190/1.1543199     Document Type: Article

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