VP/VS ratio and shear-wave splitting in the Nankai Trough seismogenic zone: Insights into effective stress, pore pressure, and sediment consolidation

Geophysics

Volumn 76, Issue 3, 2011, Pages

  Tsuji, Takeshi ^a   Dvorkin, Jack ^b   Mavko, Gary ^b   Nakata, Norimitsu ^a   Matsuoka, Toshifumi ^a   Nakanishi, Ayako ^c   Kodaira, Shuichi ^c   Nishizawa, Osamu ^d  

^a KYOTO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c JAPAN AGENCY FOR MARINE EARTH SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Japan)

^d RESEARCH INSTITUTE OF INNOVATIVE TECHNOLOGY FOR THE EARTH   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTIC WAVE VELOCITY; ANISOTROPY; FRACTURE; METAMORPHIC ROCKS; OFFSHORE OIL WELL PRODUCTION; POLARIZATION; PORE PRESSURE; SEISMIC WAVES; SEISMOGRAPHS; SEISMOLOGY; SHEAR WAVES; SIGNAL RECEIVERS; SIGNAL TO NOISE RATIO; WAVE PROPAGATION;

ACCRETIONARY PRISM; CROSS CORRELATION METHODS; FRACTURE ORIENTATIONS; GEOLOGICAL BOUNDARIES; OCEAN BOTTOM SEISMOMETER; POLARIZATION DIRECTION; SHEAR WAVE SPLITTING; VELOCITY ANISOTROPY;

SHEAR FLOW;

ACCRETIONARY PRISM; FAULT ZONE; OCEAN BOTTOM SEISMOMETER; P-WAVE; S-WAVE; SEISMIC ANISOTROPY; SEISMIC REFLECTION; SEISMIC REFRACTION; SEISMIC VELOCITY; STACKING; WAVE SPLITTING;

NANKAI TROUGH; PACIFIC OCEAN;

EID: 84857240112     PISSN: 00168033     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1190/1.3560018     Document Type: Article

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