Seismic attenuation in porous rocks with random patchy saturation

Geophysical Prospecting

Volumn 55, Issue 5, 2007, Pages 671-678

  Toms, J ^a   Müller, Tobias M ^b   Gurevich, B ^a,c  

^a CURTIN UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF KARLSRUHE   (Germany)

^c CSIRO   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FLOW OF FLUIDS; PRESSURE EFFECTS; ROCKS; SIZE DISTRIBUTION;

COHERENT WAVEFIELD; PARTIAL SATURATION; SEISMIC WAVE PROPAGATION;

SEISMIC WAVES;

FLUID FLOW; FLUID PRESSURE; PATCHINESS; POROUS MEDIUM; SEISMIC ATTENUATION; SEISMIC WAVE; WAVE FIELD; WAVE PROPAGATION;

EID: 34547873549     PISSN: 00168025     EISSN: 13652478     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2478.2007.00644.x     Document Type: Conference Paper

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