Effects of an anisotropic overburden on azimuthal amplitude analysis in horizontal transverse isotropic media

Geophysical Prospecting

Volumn 51, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 61-74

  Maultzsch, Sonja ^a   Horne, Steve ^b   Archer, Stewart ^b   Burkhardt, Hans ^c  

^a BRITISH GEOLOGICAL SURVEY   (United Kingdom)

^b WESTERNGECO   (United Kingdom)

^c TECHNISCHE UNIVERSITÄT BERLIN   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ABSORPTION; CRACKS; FLOW OF FLUIDS; FRACTURE; PORE SIZE;

ISOTROPIC MEDIA;

GEOPHYSICAL PROSPECTING;

AMPLITUDE; AZIMUTH; ISOTROPY; OVERBURDEN; SEISMIC ANISOTROPY; SEISMIC ATTENUATION; SEISMIC DATA;

EID: 0037273147     PISSN: 00168025     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-2478.2003.00354.x     Document Type: Article

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