High Vp/Vs ratio: Saturated cracks or anisotropy effects?

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 39, Issue 11, 2012, Pages

  Wang, X Q ^a,b   Schubnel, A ^b   Fortin, J ^b   David, E C ^c   Gueguen Y ^b   Ge, H K ^d  

^a INSTITUTE OF GEOPHYSICS   (China)

^b LABORATOIRE DE GÉOLOGIE   (France)

^c IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^d CHINA UNIVERSITY OF PETROLEUM   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANISOTROPY; ARGON; CARBONATE MINERALS; LITHOLOGY;

ANISOTROPY EFFECT; ARGON GAS; CARRARA MARBLES; CUMULATIVE EFFECTS; EXPERIMENTAL DATA; HIGH FREQUENCY; MEAN PRESSURES; NUMERICAL RESULTS; POISSON'S RATIO; PORE FLUID PRESSURE; SEISMIC TOMOGRAPHY; SHEAR WAVE SPLITTING; SUBDUCTION ZONES; THEORETICAL MODELS; ULTRASONIC FREQUENCY; WATER SATURATED SPECIMENS;

CRACKS;

ANISOTROPY; ARGON; CRACK; CRACKING; EXPERIMENTAL STUDY; FLUID PRESSURE; GRANITE; LITHOLOGY; MARBLE; NUMERICAL MODEL; POISSON RATIO; S-WAVE; SANDSTONE; SUBDUCTION ZONE; ULTRASONICS; WAVE SPLITTING;

EID: 84862178465     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2012GL051742     Document Type: Article

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