Amplitude-variation-with-offset, elastic-impedence, and wave-equation synthetics - A modeling study

Geophysics

Volumn 72, Issue 1, 2007, Pages

  Mallick, Subhashis ^a,b  

^a WESTERNGECO   (United States)

^b CHEVRON ENERGY TECHNOLOGY COMPANY   (United States)

Author keywords

Seismic waves; Seismology; Wave equations

Indexed keywords

APPROXIMATION THEORY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; PARAMETER ESTIMATION; SEISMIC WAVES; WAVE EQUATIONS; WAVE INTERFERENCE; WAVE PROPAGATION;

AMPLITUDE-VARIATION-WITH-PFFSET (AVO); ELASTIC-IMPEDANCE (EI) ANALYSIS; PRESTACK-WAVE-EQUATION MODELING;

SEISMOLOGY;

AVO METHOD; MODELING; P-WAVE; S-WAVE; SEISMIC DATA; SEISMIC REFLECTION; SEISMOLOGY; WAVE EQUATION; WAVE PROPAGATION;

EID: 33846086898     PISSN: 00168033     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1190/1.2387108     Document Type: Article

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