Using an airgun array in a land reservoir as the seismic source for seismotectonic studies in northern China: Experiments and preliminary results

Geophysical Prospecting

Volumn 56, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 601-612

  Chen, Yong ^a   Liu, Lanbo ^a,b   Ge, Hongkui ^a   Liu, Baojun ^a   Qiu, Xuelin ^c  

^a INSTITUTE OF GEOPHYSICS   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CONNECTICUT   (United States)

^c INSTITUTE OF GEOLOGY AND GEOPHYSICS   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHEMICAL MODIFICATION; COMPUTER NETWORKS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; CRUDE PETROLEUM; DAMS; EARTHQUAKE RESISTANCE; ELASTIC WAVES; ENERGY RESOURCES; EQUIVALENCE CLASSES; EXPERIMENTS; EXPLOSIVES; FOSSIL FUELS; GEOLOGICAL SURVEYS; GEOMETRICAL OPTICS; HEALTH; HYDRAULIC STRUCTURES; METROPOLITAN AREA NETWORKS; NETWORK PROTOCOLS; PETROLEUM RESERVOIR ENGINEERING; PHASE INTERFACES; REFRACTION; RESERVOIRS (WATER); SEISMIC WAVES; WAVES;

AIRGUNS; BORE HOLE; CRUSTAL STRUCTURES; ENVIRONMENTALLY-FRIENDLY; EUROPEAN; EXPERIMENTAL GEOMETRY; EXPLOSIVE SOURCE; FORWARD MODELLING; GEOSCIENTISTS; HORIZONTAL DIRECTION; MULTILAYER (ML); NORTH CHINA; NORTHERN CHINA; NUMERICAL SIMULATIONS; OFFSHORE PETROLEUM; PEAK GROUND ACCELERATION (PGA); RESERVOIR DAMS; SEISMIC NETWORKS; SEISMIC PHASES; SEISMIC SOURCES; SEISMIC SURVEYS; SEISMOTECTONIC; WIDE-ANGLE REFLECTION;

SEISMOLOGY;

AIR GUN; CRUSTAL STRUCTURE; EXPERIMENTAL STUDY; FORWARD MODELING; NUMERICAL MODEL; RESERVOIR; SEISMIC METHOD; SEISMIC REFLECTION; SEISMIC REFRACTION; SEISMIC SOURCE; SEISMIC SURVEY; SEISMIC WAVE; SEISMOTECTONICS; WAVE GENERATION;

ASIA; CHINA; EURASIA; FAR EAST;

EID: 45349101458     PISSN: 00168025     EISSN: 13652478     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2478.2007.00679.x     Document Type: Article

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