Wave velocities and attenuation of shaley sandstones as a function of pore pressure and partial saturation

Geophysical Prospecting

Volumn 50, Issue 6, 2002, Pages 615-627

  Pham, Nam H ^a   Carcione, José M ^b   Helle, Hans B ^c   Ursin, Bjørn ^a  

^a NORWEGIAN UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Norway)

^b ISTITUTO NAZIONALE DI OCEANOGRAFIA E DI GEOFISICA SPERIMENTALE OGS   (Italy)

^c STATOIL   (Norway)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FUNCTION EVALUATION; MECHANICAL PERMEABILITY; PRESSURE EFFECTS; SATURATION (MATERIALS COMPOSITION); SEISMIC WAVES; ULTRASONIC VELOCITY; ULTRASONIC WAVES; WAVE EFFECTS;

WAVE VELOCITIES;

SANDSTONE;

ACOUSTIC WAVE; CLAY; CONFINING PRESSURE; PORE PRESSURE; POROSITY; SANDSTONE; SATURATION; WAVE VELOCITY;

EID: 0346037332     PISSN: 00168025     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-2478.2002.00343.x     Document Type: Article

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