Different behaviours of the seismic velocity field at Soultz-sous- Forêts revealed by 4-D seismic tomography: Case study of GPK3 and GPK2 injection tests

Geophysical Journal International

Volumn 194, Issue 2, 2013, Pages 1119-1137

  Caló, Marco ^a   Dorbath, Catherine ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITÉ DE STRASBOURG   (France)

^b GET (IRD UMR234)   (France)

Author keywords

Rheology and friction of fault zones; Seismic tomography; Tomography

Indexed keywords

DOUBLE-DIFFERENCE TOMOGRAPHY; INJECTION CONDITIONS; INJECTION SCHEMES; PARAMETER DEPENDENCE; RHEOLOGY AND FRICTION OF FAULT ZONES; SEISMIC TOMOGRAPHY; SEISMIC VELOCITIES; WEIGHTED AVERAGE MODELS;

GEOTHERMAL POWER PLANTS; SEISMIC WAVES; SEISMOGRAPHS; TOMOGRAPHY; VELOCITY; WELL STIMULATION;

SEISMOLOGY;

ARRIVAL TIME; FAULT ZONE; FOUR-DIMENSIONAL MODELING; FRICTION; GEOTHERMAL POWER; P-WAVE; PARAMETERIZATION; POWER PLANT; RHEOLOGY; SEISMIC TOMOGRAPHY; SEISMIC VELOCITY; WELL LOGGING;

ALSACE; BAS RHIN; FRANCE; SOULTZ SOUS FORETS;

EID: 84880357495     PISSN: 0956540X     EISSN: 1365246X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/gji/ggt153     Document Type: Article

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