Using measured velocity to estimate gas hydrates concentration

Geophysics

Volumn 68, Issue 3, 2003, Pages 884-891

  Reister, David B ^a  

^a OAK RIDGE NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MIXTURES; SEDIMENTS; VELOCITY MEASUREMENT; WATER; ACOUSTIC WAVE VELOCITY; ACOUSTICS; ELECTRIC CONDUCTIVITY; ERRORS; GEOPHYSICAL PROSPECTING; HYDRATION; PARAMETER ESTIMATION; PETROLEUM PROSPECTING; POROSITY; SEISMIC WAVES; SEISMOLOGY; SHEAR WAVES; SUBMARINE GEOLOGY; WAVE PROPAGATION; WELL LOGGING;

MARINE SEDIMENTS; P-WAVE VELOCITIES; S-WAVE VELOCITIES; GAS HYDRATE CONCENTRATIONS; HASHIN-SHTRIKMAN; HYDRATE CONCENTRATION; NATURAL GAS TECHNOLOGY; QUADRATIC FUNCTION; S-WAVE VELOCITY; UPPER AND LOWER BOUNDS;

GAS HYDRATES;

GAS HYDRATE; MARINE SEDIMENT; MEASUREMENT METHOD; P-WAVE; S-WAVE; SEISMIC VELOCITY;

EID: 10844244554     PISSN: 00168033     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1190/1.1581040     Document Type: Article

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