Observations of fluid-dependent shear-wave splitting in synthetic porous rocks with aligned penny-shaped fractures

Geophysical Prospecting

Volumn 59, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 111-119

  Tillotson, Philip ^a   Chapman, Mark ^b,d   Best, Angus Ian ^a   Sothcott, Jeremy ^a   McCann, Clive ^a   Shangxu, Wang ^c   Li, Xiang Yang ^b,d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHAMPTON   (United Kingdom)

^b BRITISH GEOLOGICAL SURVEY   (United Kingdom)

^c CHINA UNIVERSITY OF PETROLEUM   (China)

^d UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Fluid saturation; Shear wave splitting; Synthetic fractures

Indexed keywords

ATTENUATION COEFFICIENT; CORE PLUGS; FLUID SATURATIONS; FRACTURE DENSITY; FRACTURE ORIENTATIONS; FRACTURE SIZE; FREQUENCY RANGES; FULL-WAVEFORM DATA; MESOSCALE; PORE FLUIDS; POROUS ROCKS; S-WAVE VELOCITY; SATURATED CORES; SATURATING FLUIDS; SHEAR WAVE SPLITTING; SYMMETRY AXIS; SYNTHETIC FRACTURES; TRANSVERSELY ISOTROPIC; ULTRASONIC PULSE-ECHO METHOD; VISCO-ELASTIC; VISCOSITY VARIATIONS; WATER SATURATIONS; WAVE DATA; X-RAY CT;

COMPUTERIZED TOMOGRAPHY; FLUIDS; FRACTURE; GLYCEROL; ROCKS; SHEAR WAVES; VISCOSITY; WAVE PROPAGATION;

SHEAR FLOW;

FRACTURE ORIENTATION; P-WAVE; S-WAVE; SEISMIC ATTENUATION; SEISMIC DATA; SEISMIC VELOCITY; VISCOSITY; WAVE SPLITTING; WAVEFORM ANALYSIS;

EID: 78650036696     PISSN: 00168025     EISSN: 13652478     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2478.2010.00903.x     Document Type: Article

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