Estimation of the anisotropy parameters of transversely isotropic shales with a tilted symmetry axis

Geophysical Journal International

Volumn 190, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 1197-1203

  Nadri, Dariush ^a   Sarout, Joël ^a   Bóna, Andrej ^b   Dewhurst, David ^a  

^a CSIRO   (Australia)

^b CURTIN UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Seismic anisotropy

Indexed keywords

ANISOTROPY PARAMETERS; ARBITRARY GEOMETRY; BEDDING PLANES; MODEL PARAMETERS; SEISMIC ANISOTROPY; SYMMETRY AXIS; TRANSVERSELY ISOTROPIC; VERY FAST SIMULATED REANNEALING;

ANISOTROPY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; ESTIMATION; INVERSE PROBLEMS; SHALE;

PARAMETER ESTIMATION;

ESTIMATION METHOD; INVERSE PROBLEM; P-WAVE; PARAMETERIZATION; SEISMIC ANISOTROPY; SHALE; SIMULATED ANNEALING; TRANSVERSE ISOTROPY; TRAVEL TIME; ULTRASONICS;

EID: 84863783851     PISSN: 0956540X     EISSN: 1365246X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-246X.2012.05545.x     Document Type: Article

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