Geometrical spreading of P-waves in horizontally layered, azimuthally anisotropic media

Geophysics

Volumn 70, Issue 5, 2005, Pages

  Xu, Xiaoxia ^a   Tsvankin, Ilya ^a   Pech, Andrés ^a,b  

^a Department of Geology and Geological Engineering   (United States)

^b INSTITUTO POLITÉCNICO NACIONAL   (Mexico)

Author keywords

Anisotropic media; Seismic waves; Seismology

Indexed keywords

ANISOTROPY; APPROXIMATION THEORY; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; NUMERICAL ANALYSIS; SEISMIC WAVES;

ANISOTROPIC MEDIA; GEOMETRICAL SPREADING; VERTICAL SYMMETRY AXIS;

SEISMOLOGY;

ANISOTROPIC MEDIUM; SEISMIC WAVE; WAVE PROPAGATION;

EID: 33645672377     PISSN: 00168033     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1190/1.2052467     Document Type: Article

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