Inversion and interpretation of a 3D seismic data set from the Ouachita Mountains, Oklahoma

GEOPHYSICS

Volumn 74, Issue 2, 2009, Pages

  Aibaidula, Abuduwali ^a,b   McMechan, George ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT DALLAS   (United States)

^b ANADARKO PETROLEUM CORPORATION   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GEOPHYSICAL PROSPECTING; LIME; LIMESTONE; LITHOLOGY; PETROLEUM RESERVOIRS; SANDSTONE; SEISMIC RESPONSE; SEISMIC WAVES; SHEAR WAVES; THREE DIMENSIONAL COMPUTER GRAPHICS;

3D SEISMIC DATA; 3D VISUALIZATION; ACOUSTIC IMPEDANCE INVERSION; ANGLE-DEPENDENT; HYDROCARBON DISTRIBUTION; INVERSION RESULTS; MISSISSIPPIANS; OUACHITA MOUNTAINS;

ACOUSTIC IMPEDANCE;

DATA INTERPRETATION; DATA INVERSION; DATA SET; LITHOLOGY; MISSISSIPPIAN; P-WAVE; S-WAVE; SEISMIC DATA; SPATIAL DISTRIBUTION; VISUALIZATION;

NORTH AMERICA; OUACHITA MOUNTAINS; UNITED STATES;

EID: 63049138991     PISSN: 00168033     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1190/1.3073005     Document Type: Article

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