The effect of texture and porosity on seismic reflection amplitude in granular sediments: Theory and examples from a high-resolution shallow seismic experiment

Geophysics

Volumn 69, Issue 6, 2004, Pages 1513-1520

  Bachrach, Ran ^a,b   Mukerji, Tapan ^c  

^a MICHIGAN STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b WESTERNGECO   (United States)

^c STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTIC WAVE PROPAGATION; ACOUSTIC WAVE REFLECTION; AGGREGATES; AQUIFERS; ELASTICITY; GRANULAR MATERIALS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; POROSITY; SEDIMENTS; SEISMIC WAVES; TEXTURES; DEFORMATION; HYDROGEOLOGY; SEDIMENTOLOGY; SEISMOLOGY; SORTING;

REFLECTION AMPLITUDE; SEDIMENTARY PACKETS; SEISMIC REFLECTION; WATER TABLE; GRANULAR AGGREGATES; LOW CONFINING PRESSURE; SATURATED SEDIMENTS; SEDIMENT PROPERTIES; TEXTURAL PROPERTIES; THEORETICAL FORMULATION;

SEISMOLOGY; SEDIMENTS;

POROSITY; SEDIMENT PROPERTY; SEISMIC WAVE; TEXTURE; WAVE PROPAGATION;

EID: 12144267467     PISSN: 00168033     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1190/1.1836824     Document Type: Article

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