Geometrical spreading in a layered transversely isotropic medium with vertical symmetry axis

Geophysics

Volumn 68, Issue 6, 2003, Pages 2082-2091

  Ursin, Bjørn ^a   Hokstad, Ketil ^b  

^a NORWEGIAN UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Norway)

^b STATOIL   (Norway)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANISOTROPY; APPROXIMATION THEORY; MECHANICAL WAVES; RAY TRACING; WAVE PROPAGATION; ACOUSTIC WAVE VELOCITY; ANISOTROPIC MEDIA; DATA HANDLING; GEOPHYSICAL PROSPECTING; SEISMIC RESPONSE; SEISMIC WAVES; SEISMOLOGY; SHEAR WAVES;

GEOMETRICAL SPREADING; ISOTROPIC MEDIUM; AMPLITUDE VERSUS OFFSET; ANALYTICAL APPROXIMATION; GEOMETRICAL ACOUSTICS; INHOMOGENEOUS MEDIA; TRANSVERSELY ISOTROPIC MEDIAS; TRANSVERSELY ISOTROPIC MEDIUM; VERTICAL SYMMETRY AXIS;

GEOPHYSICS; GEOMETRY;

AVO METHOD; DATA PROCESSING; KIRCHHOFF EQUATION; SEISMIC DATA; WAVE PROPAGATION;

EID: 0346094180     PISSN: 00168033     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1190/1.1635062     Document Type: Article

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