Fluid-dependent shear-wave splitting in a poroelastic medium with conjugate fracture sets

Geophysical Prospecting

Volumn 55, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 333-343

  Galvin, Robert J ^a   Gurevich, Boris ^a,b   Sayers, Colin M ^c  

^a CURTIN UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b CSIRO   (Australia)

^c SCHLUMBERGER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FLOW OF FLUIDS; FRACTURING FLUIDS; SHEAR WAVES; WAVE PROPAGATION;

FILLING FLUID; GASSMANN EQUATIONS; SHEAR-WAVE SPLITTING;

PETROLEUM RESERVOIRS;

BULK MODULUS; DEFORMATION; ELASTIC PROPERTY; FLUID PRESSURE; POROELASTICITY; POROUS MEDIUM; S-WAVE; SEISMIC ANISOTROPY; WAVE PROPAGATION;

EID: 34250362753     PISSN: 00168025     EISSN: 13652478     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2478.2007.00593.x     Document Type: Article

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