Anisotropy of seismic attenuation in fractured media: Theory and ultrasonic experiment

Transport in Porous Media

Volumn 79, Issue 1 SPEC. ISS., 2009, Pages 1-14

  Chichinina, T I ^a   Obolentseva, I R ^b   Ronquillo Jarillo, G ^a  

^a INSTITUTO MEXICANO DEL PETRÓLEO   (Mexico)

^b TROFIMUK INSTITUTE OF PETROLEUM GEOLOGY AND GEOPHYSICS   (Russian Federation)

Author keywords

Attenuation; Fractures; Linear slipmodel; Q anisotropy; QS QP ratio; Seismic anisotropy; Seismic quality factor Q versus offset (QVO); Transversely isotropic (TI) medium; Ultrasonic experiment

Indexed keywords

ATTENUATION; LINEAR-SLIPMODEL; Q-ANISOTROPY; QS/QP-RATIO; SEISMIC ANISOTROPY; SEISMIC QUALITY FACTOR Q VERSUS OFFSET (QVO); TRANSVERSELY ISOTROPIC (TI) MEDIUM; ULTRASONIC EXPERIMENT;

ANISOTROPY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; FRACTURE; PETROLEUM PROSPECTING; Q FACTOR MEASUREMENT; SEISMIC PROSPECTING; SEISMOLOGY; SHEAR WAVES; STIFFNESS MATRIX; ULTRASONICS; WATER ANALYSIS;

EXPERIMENTS;

FRACTURED MEDIUM; ISOTROPY; LABORATORY METHOD; NUMERICAL MODEL; P-WAVE; ROCK MECHANICS; S-WAVE; SEISMIC ANISOTROPY; SEISMIC ATTENUATION; SEISMOLOGY; STIFFNESS; ULTRASONICS;

EID: 68349104449     PISSN: 01693913     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11242-008-9233-9     Document Type: Article

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