Source-rock seismic-velocity models: Gassmann versus Backus

Geophysics

Volumn 76, Issue 5, 2011, Pages

  Carcione, José M ^a   Helle, Hans B ^b   Avseth, Per ^b,c  

^a ISTITUTO NAZIONALE DI OCEANOGRAFIA E DI GEOFISICA SPERIMENTALE OGS   (Italy)

^b Odin Petroleum   (Norway)

^c NORWEGIAN UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Norway)

Author keywords

Anisotropy; Compressional wave (P wave); Porosity; Rock physics; Seismic attributes

Indexed keywords

ANISOTROPY; ELASTIC MODULI; INFILL DRILLING; KEROGEN; MIXTURES; OIL SHALE; POROSITY; SEISMIC WAVES; SEISMOLOGY; VELOCITY;

COMPRESSIONAL WAVES (PWAVE); GASSMANN EQUATIONS; LOWER AND UPPER BOUNDS; ROCK PHYSICS; SEISMIC ATTRIBUTES; SEISMIC VELOCITIES; SEISMIC VELOCITY MODELS; TRANSVERSELY ISOTROPIC MEDIUM;

SHALE;

DATA SET; ILLITE; ISOTROPY; KEROGEN; NUMERICAL MODEL; ORGANIC MATTER; POROSITY; SEISMIC ANISOTROPY; SEISMIC VELOCITY; SHALE; SOURCE ROCK;

EID: 84857463284     PISSN: 00168033     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1190/geo2010-0258.1     Document Type: Article

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