Revisiting the Wyllie time avarage equation in the case of near-spherical pores

Geophysics

Volumn 69, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 45-55

  Saleh, Azzeldeen A ^a,b   Castagna, John P ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OKLAHOMA   (United States)

^b Tanta University   (Egypt)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTIC WAVE VELOCITY; FRACTURE; IGNEOUS ROCKS; POROSITY; STIFFNESS; ACOUSTIC WAVE VELOCITY MEASUREMENT; ASPECT RATIO; SEISMIC PROSPECTING; SEISMIC WAVES; SPHERES; WAVE PROPAGATION;

INTERCRYSTALLINE PORES; NEAR-SPHERICAL PORES; WYLLIE TIME AVERAGE EQUATION; FRACTURE POROSITY; GENERALIZED EQUATIONS; HASHIN-SHTRIKMAN; HIGH ASPECT RATIO; RESISTIVITY MEASUREMENT; THEORETICAL MODELING; VELOCITY VARIATIONS;

ROCK MECHANICS; POROSITY;

CARBONATE ROCK; IGNEOUS ROCK; P-WAVE; POROSITY; POROUS MEDIUM; SEISMIC WAVE; WAVE PROPAGATION;

EID: 1842507167     PISSN: 00168033     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1190/1.1649374     Document Type: Article

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