Low-frequency reflections from a thin layer with high attenuation caused by interlayer flow

Geophysics

Volumn 74, Issue 1, 2009, Pages

  Quintal, Beatriz ^a   Schmalholz, Stefan M ^a   Podladchikov, Yuri Y ^b  

^a GEOLOGICAL INSTITUTE   (Switzerland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OSLO   (Norway)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

PETROLEUM RESERVOIRS; PETROPHYSICS; REFLECTION; VISCOELASTICITY; WAVE PROPAGATION;

APPROXIMATE EQUATION; FINITE DIFFERENCE SIMULATIONS; INCIDENT WAVELENGTH; LOW FREQUENCY RANGE; PETROPHYSICAL PARAMETERS; SEISMIC WAVE ATTENUATIONS; VISCOELASTIC SOLIDS; WAVE-INDUCED FLUID FLOW;

FLOW OF FLUIDS;

BIOT THEORY; FLUID FLOW; HYDROCARBON RESERVOIR; MODELING; POROELASTICITY; SANDSTONE; SEISMIC WAVE; WAVE ATTENUATION; WAVE EQUATION; WAVE PROPAGATION;

EID: 58149475279     PISSN: 00168033     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1190/1.3026620     Document Type: Article

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