Effective attenuation anisotropy of thin-layered media

Geophysics

Volumn 72, Issue 5, 2007, Pages

  Zhu, Yaping ^a,b   Tsvankin, Ilya ^a   Vasconcelos, Ivan ^a,c  

^a Department of Geology and Geological Engineering   (United States)

^b EXXONMOBIL UPSTREAM RESEARCH COMPANY   (United States)

^c ION GEOPHYSICAL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANISOTROPY; APPROXIMATION THEORY; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; PROBABILITY; SEISMIC WAVES; STIFFNESS MATRIX; SURFACE WAVES;

ATTENUATION-ANISOTROPY PARAMETERS; VERTICAL SYMMETRY AXIS (VTI);

SEISMOLOGY;

LAYERED MEDIUM; P-WAVE; S-WAVE; SEISMIC ANISOTROPY; SEISMIC ATTENUATION; SEISMIC VELOCITY; TRANSVERSE ISOTROPY;

EID: 34548529517     PISSN: 00168033     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1190/1.2754185     Document Type: Article

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