Vp/Vs ratio versus differential stress and rock consolidation - A comparison between rock models and time-lapse AVO data

Geophysics

Volumn 72, Issue 5, 2007, Pages

  Duffaut, Kenneth ^a,b   Landrø, Martin ^a  

^a NORWEGIAN UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Norway)

^b STATOIL   (Norway)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CONSOLIDATION; ROCK MECHANICS; ROCKS; SHEAR STRESS; SHEAR WAVES; ULTRASONIC MEASUREMENT;

AMPLITUDE VERSUS OFFSET (AVO); DIFFERENTIAL STRESS; GASSMANN MODEL; HERTZ-MINDLIN GEOMECHANICAL MODEL; ROCK CONSOLIDATION; UTRASONIC CORE MEASUREMENTS;

PETROLOGY;

AVO METHOD; CONSOLIDATION; LITHOLOGY; P-WAVE; S-WAVE; STRESS; WAVE VELOCITY;

EID: 34548535419     PISSN: 00168033     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1190/1.2752175     Document Type: Article

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