Scientific strategy to explain observed spectral anomalies over hydrocarbon reservoirs generated by microtremors

Workshop Passive Seismic - Passive Seismic: Exploration and Monitoring Applications

Volumn , Issue , 2006, Pages

  Schmalholz, S M ^a   Podladchikov, Y Y ^b   Holzner, R ^c   Saenger, E H ^d  

^a ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^b Physics of Geological Processes   (Switzerland)

^c Spectraseis Technologie AG   (Switzerland)

^d FREIE UNIVERSITÄT BERLIN   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FREQUENCY BANDS; POROUS MATERIALS; SEISMOLOGY;

DIFFERENT MECHANISMS; HYDROCARBON RESERVOIR; LOW FREQUENCY BAND; NUMERICAL APPROACHES; PHYSICAL MECHANISM; RESERVOIR ROCK TYPES; SIGNAL STRUCTURES; SPECTRAL ANOMALIES;

HYDROCARBONS;

EID: 84898979674     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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