Near-surface study at the valhall oil field from ambient noise surface wave tomography

Geophysical Journal International

Volumn 193, Issue 3, 2013, Pages 1627-1643

  Mordret, A ^a   Landes M ^a   Shapiro, N M ^a   Singh, S C ^a   Roux, P ^b   Barkved, O I ^c  

^a INSTITUT DE PHYSIQUE DU GLOBE DE PARIS   (France)

^b UNIVERSITÉ GRENOBLE ALPES   (France)

^c NONE

Author keywords

Europe; Interface waves; Interferometry; Seismic tomography

Indexed keywords

AMBIENT SEISMIC NOISE; CROSS-CORRELATIONS; EUROPE; FULL-WAVEFORM INVERSION; GROUP VELOCITY DISPERSION CURVE; INTERFACE WAVES; SEISMIC TOMOGRAPHY; SURFACE-WAVE TOMOGRAPHY;

ACOUSTIC NOISE; ACOUSTIC WAVE VELOCITY; DRILLING PLATFORMS; GROUP VELOCITY DISPERSION; INTERFEROMETRY; LIGHT VELOCITY; OIL FIELDS; SEISMIC WAVES; SHEAR WAVES; SURFACE WAVES; WAVE PROPAGATION;

SEISMOLOGY;

AMBIENT NOISE; INTERFEROMETRY; LOVE WAVE; OIL FIELD; OIL PLATFORM; P-WAVE; S-WAVE; SEISMIC DATA; SEISMIC TOMOGRAPHY; SEISMIC VELOCITY; SURFACE WAVE; WAVEFORM ANALYSIS;

ATLANTIC OCEAN; NORTH SEA; VALHALL FIELD;

EID: 84877944721     PISSN: 0956540X     EISSN: 1365246X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/gji/ggt061     Document Type: Article

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