Analysis of Thomsen parameters for finely layered VTI media

1997 SEG Annual Meeting

Volumn , Issue , 1997, Pages 941-944

  Berryman, James G ^a   Grechka, Vladimir ^b   Berge, Patricia A ^a  

^a LAWRENCE LIVERMORE NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^b Department of Metallurgical and Materials Engineering   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANISOTROPY; SHEAR FLOW;

ANISOTROPY PARAMETERS; CONSTANT DENSITY; ELASTIC MATERIALS; FLUID SATURATED POROUS MEDIA; LAYERED EARTHS; NEGATIVE VALUES; THOMSEN PARAMETER; VERTICAL TRANSVERSELY ISOTROPIC;

POROUS MATERIALS;

EID: 2042420305     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1190/1.1886174     Document Type: Conference Paper

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