Shear wave splitting applications for fracture analysis and improved imaging: Some onshore examples

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Volumn 27, Issue 9, 2009, Pages 73-83

  Bale, Richard ^a   Gratacos, Bruno ^a   Mattocks, Bruce ^b   Roche, Steve ^b   Poplavskii, Kostya ^b   Lil, Xinxiang ^a  

^a CGG   (France)

^b CGG   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANISOTROPY; BOREHOLE; FRACTURE; IMAGING METHOD; LITHOLOGY; PREDICTION; RESERVOIR; ROCK; S-WAVE;

EID: 70349111820     PISSN: 02635046     EISSN: 13652397     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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