Integrating observations of elastic anisotropy: Constrained inversion of seismic kinematic data

1997 SEG Annual Meeting

Volumn , Issue , 1997, Pages 1695-1698

  Williamson, P R ^a   Sexton, A ^a   Xu, S ^b  

^a Elf Geoscience Research Centre   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANISOTROPY; KINEMATICS; PETROPHYSICS; SEISMIC PROSPECTING; SEISMIC RESPONSE; SEISMIC WAVES;

ANISOTROPIC VELOCITIES; ANISOTROPY PARAMETERS; CONSTRAINED INVERSIONS; KINEMATIC INFORMATION; LABORATORY MEASUREMENTS; PETROPHYSICAL MODELS; SEISMIC OBSERVATION; SEISMIC TRAVELTIMES;

PARAMETER ESTIMATION;

EID: 0347660421     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1190/1.1885755     Document Type: Conference Paper

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