Assessment of gas-hydrate saturations in the Makran accretionary prism using the offset dependence of seismic amplitudes

Geophysics

Volumn 75, Issue 2, 2010, Pages

  Ojha, Maheswar ^a   Sain, Kalachand ^a   Minshull, Timothy A ^b  

^a NATIONAL GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (India)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHAMPTON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GASES; HYDRATION; PRISMS; SEISMIC PROSPECTING; SEISMIC WAVES; SEISMOLOGY;

ACCRETIONARY PRISM; BOTTOM SIMULATING REFLECTOR; GAS HYDRATE SATURATIONS; LATERAL VARIATIONS; ROCK PHYSICS MODEL; SEISMIC AMPLITUDES; SEISMIC REFLECTIONS; SEISMIC VELOCITIES;

GAS HYDRATES;

ACCRETIONARY PRISM; AVO METHOD; ESTIMATION METHOD; GAS HYDRATE; MODELING; SEISMIC DATA; SEISMIC REFLECTION; SEISMIC VELOCITY; AMPLITUDE; HYDROCARBON EXPLORATION; HYDROCARBON RESERVOIR; SATURATION;

ARABIAN SEA; INDIAN OCEAN; MAKRAN;

EID: 84864155486     PISSN: 00168033     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1190/1.3315861     Document Type: Article

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