Virtual shear source makes shear waves with air guns

Geophysics

Volumn 72, Issue 2, 2007, Pages

  Bakulin, Andrey ^a   Mateeva, Albena ^a   Calvert, Rodney ^a   Jorgensen, Patsy ^a   Lopez, Jorge ^a  

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

Author keywords

Geophysical prospecting; Seafloor phenomena; Seismic waves; Seismometers

Indexed keywords

MATHEMATICAL MODELS; SEISMIC WAVES; SEISMOGRAPHS; SHEAR WAVES;

GEOPHONES; SHEAR VELOCITY; VERTICAL SEISMIC PROFILING; VIRTUAL DOWNHOLE SOURCES;

SEISMIC PROSPECTING;

AIR GUN; GEOPHONE; GEOPHYSICAL METHOD; P-WAVE; S-WAVE; SEAFLOOR; SEISMIC DATA; SEISMIC SOURCE; SEISMOGRAM; VELOCITY PROFILE; VERTICAL SEISMIC PROFILE; WAVE VELOCITY;

ATLANTIC OCEAN; GULF OF MEXICO;

EID: 33947181597     PISSN: 00168033     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1190/1.2430563     Document Type: Article

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