The effective elastic compliance of fractured rock

1996 SEG Annual Meeting

Volumn , Issue , 1996, Pages 1842-1845

  Liu, Enru ^a   MacBeth, Colin D ^a   Pointer, Tim ^a   Hudson, John A ^b   Crampin, Stuart ^c  

^a BRITISH GEOLOGICAL SURVEY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FRACTURE; WAVE PROPAGATION;

CONTINUOUS LAYERS; ELASTIC COMPLIANCE; FRACTURE COMPLIANCES; FRACTURE SURFACES; INTERFACIAL CONTACT; MACROSCOPIC FRACTURES; NATURAL FRACTURE; PRIORI INFORMATION;

CRACKS;

EID: 2042486855     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1190/1.1826497     Document Type: Conference Paper

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