AVO study of a gas-hydrate deposit, offshore Costa Rica

Geophysical Prospecting

Volumn 55, Issue 5, 2007, Pages 719-735

  Müller, Christian ^a   Bönnemann, Christian ^a   Neben, Sönke ^a  

^a FEDERAL INSTITUTE FOR GEOSCIENCES AND NATURAL RESOURCES BGR   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTIC IMPEDANCE; FLOW OF FLUIDS; GAS HYDRATES; SEDIMENTS;

AMPLITUDE WARIATION WITH OFFSET ANALYSIS; BOTTOM-SIMULATING REFLECTORS; FREE GAS; PATCHY DISTRIBUTION;

SEISMIC PROSPECTING;

AVO METHOD; DATA INVERSION; FLUID FLOW; GAS HYDRATE; SEISMIC DATA; SEISMIC REFLECTION; SEISMOLOGY; WAVEFORM ANALYSIS;

CENTRAL AMERICA; COSTA RICA; NICOYA PENINSULA;

EID: 34547881534     PISSN: 00168025     EISSN: 13652478     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2478.2007.00632.x     Document Type: Conference Paper

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