Acoustic properties of carbonates: Effects of rock texture and implications for fluid substitution

Geophysics

Volumn 73, Issue 2, 2008, Pages

  Verwer, Klaas ^a   Braaksma, Hendrik ^b,c   Kenter, Jeroen A M ^d  

^a VU UNIVERSITY AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

^b UNIV MONTPELLIER   (France)

^c EXXONMOBIL UPSTREAM RESEARCH COMPANY   (United States)

^d Chevron Energy Technology Company   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Acoustic wave propagation; Geochemistry; Poisson ratio; Porosity; Rocks; Seismic waves; Stratigraphy; Well logging

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTIC LOGGING; ACOUSTIC PROPERTIES; ACOUSTIC WAVE PROPAGATION; ACOUSTIC WAVE VELOCITY; ACOUSTIC WAVE VELOCITY MEASUREMENT; ACOUSTIC WAVES; ACOUSTICS; CARBONATES; CARBONATION; CRYSTALLINE ROCKS; DEPOSITION; ELASTIC MODULI; GEOCHEMISTRY; MINERALS; POISSON RATIO; POROSITY; ROCKS; SEDIMENTOLOGY; SEISMIC WAVES; SEISMOLOGY; SHEAR FLOW; SHEAR STRAIN; SHEAR WAVES; STRATIGRAPHY; TEXTURES; ULTRASONIC APPLICATIONS; WELL LOGGING;

COMPRESSIONAL WAVE VELOCITY; DIRECT EXTRACTION; EFFECTIVE PRESSURE; FLUID SUBSTITUTION; PETROPHYSICAL MEASUREMENTS; SATURATED CONDITIONS; SATURATED VELOCITY; SEDIMENTARY SEQUENCE;

SEDIMENTARY ROCKS;

ACOUSTIC PROPERTY; ACOUSTIC WAVE; CARBONATE ROCK; DATA SET; GEOCHEMISTRY; OUTCROP; POISSON RATIO; POROSITY; ROCK PROPERTY; SEISMIC DATA; SEISMIC WAVE; TEXTURE; TORTONIAN; WAVE PROPAGATION;

EID: 58149251948     PISSN: 00168033     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1190/1.2831935     Document Type: Article

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