Quartic reflection moveout in a weakly anisotropic dipping layer

Geophysics

Volumn 71, Issue 1, 2006, Pages

  Grechka, Vladimir ^a   Pech, Andrés ^b  

^a SHELL GLOBAL SOLUTIONS INTERNATIONAL B V   (United States)

^b INSTITUTO POLITÉCNICO NACIONAL   (Mexico)

Author keywords

Anisotropic media; Image processing; Seismic waves

Indexed keywords

ANISOTROPY; APPROXIMATION THEORY; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; PERTURBATION TECHNIQUES; STIFFNESS;

ANISOTROPIC DIPPING LAYER; AZIMUTHALLY VARYING QUARTIC MOVEOUT COEFFICIENT; ISOTROPIC SOLID; SEISMIC ANISOTROPY; STIFFNESS PERTURBATION;

SEISMOLOGY;

P-WAVE; SEISMIC ANISOTROPY; SEISMIC REFLECTION;

EID: 31744446390     PISSN: 00168033     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1190/1.2159047     Document Type: Article

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