Compressional-wave Q estimation from full-waveform sonic data

Geophysical Prospecting

Volumn 49, Issue 3, 2001, Pages 353-373

  Dasios, A ^a   Astin, T R ^b   McCann, C ^b  

^a Western Geophysical   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF READING   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATTENUATION; POROSITY; SEISMOLOGY; WAVE PROPAGATION;

PETROPHYSICAL PROPERTIES;

GEOPHYSICAL PROSPECTING;

S-WAVE; SEISMIC ATTENUATION; SEISMIC WAVE; WAVE PROPAGATION;

EID: 0343807200     PISSN: 00168025     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-2478.2001.00259.x     Document Type: Article

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