Constraints on velocity-depth trends from rock physics models

Geophysical Prospecting

Volumn 55, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 135-154

  Japsen, Peter ^a   Mukerji, Tapan ^b   Mavko, Gary ^b  

^a GEOLOGICAL SURVEY OF DENMARK AND GREENLAND   (Denmark)

^b STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTIC WAVE VELOCITY; LITHOLOGY; MATHEMATICAL TRANSFORMATIONS; POROSITY; REGRESSION ANALYSIS;

ROCK PHYSICS; SEDIMENTARY FORMATIONS; VELOCITY-DEPTH GRADIENT;

SEDIMENTARY ROCKS;

COMPACTION; EXHUMATION; FLUID PRESSURE; LITHOLOGY; MODEL; POROSITY; SANDSTONE; SEDIMENTARY ROCK; SHALE; UNCONSOLIDATED MEDIUM; VELOCITY;

ATLANTIC OCEAN; NORTH SEA;

EID: 33847633848     PISSN: 00168025     EISSN: 13652478     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2478.2007.00607.x     Document Type: Article

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