Rock-physics developments in seismic exploration: A personal 50-year perspective

Geophysics

Volumn 70, Issue 6, 2005, Pages

  King, Michael S ^a  

^a IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Flow through porous media; Geophysical prospecting; Permeability; Reviews; Rocks; Seismic waves

Indexed keywords

ANISOTROPY; ELASTICITY; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MECHANICAL PERMEABILITY; POROUS MATERIALS; ROCKS; SEISMIC WAVES; SOLID STATE PHYSICS; ULTRASONIC MEASUREMENT; LABORATORIES; PORE STRUCTURE; SEISMIC PROSPECTING; SEISMOLOGY; SHEAR WAVES;

FLOW THROUGH POROUS MEDIA; FLUID PERMEABILITY; FLUID-SATURATED POROUS MEDIA; RESERVOIR CHARACTERIZATION; ROCK PHYSICS; SEISMIC EXPLORATION; SEISMIC FREQUENCIES; TIME-LAPSE SEISMIC MONITORING; DEGREE OF SATURATIONS; FLUID SATURATED POROUS MEDIA; LABORATORY EQUIPMENTS; LABORATORY EXPERIMENTS; LABORATORY MEASUREMENTS; PROBLEMS AND SOLUTIONS; TIME LAPSE SEISMIC MONITORING;

SEISMIC PROSPECTING; SHEAR FLOW;

EXPLORATION; PHYSICS; SEISMIC METHOD;

EID: 33645660224     PISSN: 00168033     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1190/1.2107947     Document Type: Review

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