Effects of porestructure on sonic velocity in carbonates

SEG Technical Program Expanded Abstracts

Volumn 23, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 1774-1777

  Weger, Ralf J ^a   Baechle, Gregor T ^a   Masaferro, Jose Luis ^b   Eberli, Gregor P ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MIAMI   (United States)

^b SHELL GLOBAL SOLUTIONS INTERNATIONAL B V   (United States)

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EID: 70549102487     PISSN: 10523812     EISSN: 19494645     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1190/1.1845169     Document Type: Conference Paper

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