Elastic finite-difference modeling of volcanic-hosted massive sulfide deposits: A case study from Half Mile Lake, New Brunswick, Canada

Geophysics

Volumn 77, Issue 5, 2012, Pages

  Bellefleur, Gilles ^a   Malehmir, Alireza ^b   MüLler, Christof ^c  

^a GEOLOGICAL SURVEY OF CANADA   (Canada)

^b UPPSALA UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^c GNS SCIENCE   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

Mining; Modeling; Reflection

Indexed keywords

BOREHOLES; DEPOSITS; GEOLOGIC MODELS; LAKES; MINERALOGY; MINING; MODELS; PETROPHYSICS; REFLECTION; SEISMIC PROSPECTING; SEISMIC WAVES; SHEAR WAVES; STRATIGRAPHY; SUBMARINE GEOPHYSICS; SULFUR DEPOSITS; VOLCANOES; WELL LOGGING;

COMPOSITIONAL EFFECTS; FINITE DIFFERENCE MODEL; FINITE DIFFERENCE SIMULATIONS; GEOLOGIC INFORMATION; PETROPHYSICAL PROPERTIES; SCATTERING SIGNATURES; SULFIDE MINERALIZATION; VOLCANIC-HOSTED MASSIVE SULFIDE DEPOSITS;

SULFUR COMPOUNDS;

AMPLITUDE; BOREHOLE LOGGING; FINITE DIFFERENCE METHOD; GABBRO; MAPPING; MASSIVE SULFIDE; MINERALIZATION; MINING; NUMERICAL MODEL; P-WAVE; PRESTACK MIGRATION; S-WAVE; SEISMIC REFLECTION; SULFIDE; WAVE FIELD; WAVE SCATTERING;

CANADA; NEW BRUNSWICK;

EID: 84866461320     PISSN: 00168033     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1190/geo2011-0445.1     Document Type: Article

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