Attenuation anisotropy in the linear-slip model: Interpretation of physical modeling data

Geophysics

Volumn 74, Issue 5, 2009, Pages

  Chichinina, Tatiana ^a   Obolentseva, Irina ^b   Gik, Leonid ^b   Bobrov, Boris ^b   Ronquillo Jarillo, Gerardo ^a  

^a INSTITUTO MEXICANO DEL PETRÓLEO   (Mexico)

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

Author keywords

Faulting; Seismic waves

Indexed keywords

CAPILLARY FLOW; FAULTING; SHEAR WAVES;

CENTRAL FREQUENCY; LINEAR SLIP MODEL; MATHEMATICAL FORMALISM; PHYSICAL MEANINGS; QUALITY FACTOR Q; REAL AND IMAGINARY; ULTRASONIC EXPERIMENTS; UNIAXIAL PRESSURES;

SEISMIC WAVES;

CONFERENCE PROCEEDING; DATA INTERPRETATION; MODELING; Q FACTOR; SEISMIC ANISOTROPY; SEISMIC ATTENUATION; SEISMIC VELOCITY; SEISMIC WAVE;

EID: 71049174137     PISSN: 00168033     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1190/1.3173806     Document Type: Conference Paper

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