Detection of seismic anisotropy using ocean bottom seismometers: A case study from the northern headwall of the Storegga Slide

Geophysical Journal International

Volumn 183, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 188-210

  Exley, R J K ^a   Westbrook, G K ^a   Haacke, R R ^b   Peacock, S ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BIRMINGHAM   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Fracture and flow; Fractures and faults; Gas and hydrate systems; Seismic anisotropy; Seismic tomography; Submarine landslides

Indexed keywords

3D SEISMIC DATA; AIR GUNS; ANISOTROPIC RESPONSE; AZIMUTHAL SEISMIC ANISOTROPY; DISTRIBUTION OF GAS; FLUID-FILLED; FRACTURE ORIENTATIONS; HEADWALLS; HIGH VELOCITY; HORIZONTAL TRANSVERSE ISOTROPIES; LOW WATER-CONTENT; MODE CONVERSIONS; MOTION ANALYSIS; MOVEOUT; MULTIBEAM BATHYMETRY; OCEAN BOTTOM SEISMOMETER; ORTHORHOMBIC SYMMETRY; PLANE-OF-SYMMETRY; PLEISTOCENE SEDIMENTS; PORE FLUID PRESSURE; PRINCIPAL STRESS; S-WAVE SPLITTING; S-WAVES; SEDIMENT COLUMN; SEISMIC ANISOTROPY; SEISMIC TOMOGRAPHY; STOREGGA SLIDE; STRATIGRAPHIC DATA; SUB-SURFACES; SUBMARINE LANDSLIDES; TRAVEL TIME; VELOCITY MODEL; VERTICAL PERMEABILITIES; WAVE POLARIZATIONS;

ANISOTROPY; ANOXIC SEDIMENTS; BATHYMETRY; FRACTURE; GAS HYDRATES; HYDRATION; LANDSLIDES; LITHOLOGY; MICA; SEDIMENTOLOGY; SEISMIC PROSPECTING; SEISMOGRAPHS; SHEAR WAVES; SILICATE MINERALS; STRATIGRAPHY; SUBMARINE GEOLOGY; SUBMARINES; TOMOGRAPHY; WATER CONTENT;

SEISMOLOGY;

DATA INVERSION; GAS HYDRATE; GEOPHONE; OCEAN BOTTOM SEISMOMETER; RAY TRACING; S-WAVE; SEISMIC ANISOTROPY; SEISMIC DATA; SEISMIC TOMOGRAPHY; STACKING; SUBMARINE LANDSLIDE; WAVE SPLITTING;

ARCTIC OCEAN; NORWEGIAN SEA; STOREGGA SLIDE;

EID: 78349252353     PISSN: 0956540X     EISSN: 1365246X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-246X.2010.04730.x     Document Type: Article

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