Interaction of seismic background noise with oscillating pore fluids causes spectral modifications of passive seismic measurements at low frequencies

SEG Technical Program Expanded Abstracts

Volumn 26, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 1307-1311

  Frehner, Marcel ^a   Schmalholz, Stefan M ^a   Podladchikov, Yuri ^b  

^a ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OSLO   (Norway)

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EID: 37549010358     PISSN: 10523812     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1190/1.2792742     Document Type: Conference Paper

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