Ore-body imaging by crosswell seismic waveform inversion: A case study from Kambalda, Western Australia

Journal of Applied Geophysics

Volumn 70, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 38-45

  Xu, Kun ^a   Greenhalgh, Stewart ^b,c  

^a INSTITUTE OF GEOLOGY AND GEOPHYSICS   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ADELAIDE   (Australia)

^c ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Crosswell; Direct P waves; Inversion; Ore body; Tube wave

Indexed keywords

BODY WAVES; CROSS-WELL; FIRST ARRIVAL; FREQUENCY DOMAINS; FULL-WAVEFORMS; INVERSION; NICKEL SULPHIDE; ORE BODIES; P WAVES; PRE-PROCESSING; SEISMIC WAVEFORM INVERSION; SOURCE ESTIMATION; TRAVEL TIME TOMOGRAPHY; VELOCITY STRUCTURE; WAVE CONVERSION; WAVE FORMS; WAVEFIELDS; WAVEFORM INVERSION; WESTERN AUSTRALIA;

ORE DEPOSITS; SEISMOLOGY; TOMOGRAPHY; TUBES (COMPONENTS); WAVEFORM ANALYSIS;

FREQUENCY ESTIMATION;

DATA INVERSION; MINERALIZATION; ORE BODY; P-WAVE; SEISMIC MIGRATION; SEISMIC TOMOGRAPHY; VELOCITY STRUCTURE; WAVEFORM ANALYSIS;

AUSTRALIA; KAMBALDA; WESTERN AUSTRALIA;

EID: 74149093701     PISSN: 09269851     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jappgeo.2009.11.001     Document Type: Article

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