Seismic velocities from experimental compaction: New porosity and velocity-depth relations for sands with different textural and mineralogical composition

Society of Exploration Geophysicists International Exposition and 80th Annual Meeting 2010, SEG 2010

Volumn , Issue , 2010, Pages 2480-2485

  Fawad, Manzar ^a   Mondol, Nazmul Haque ^a   Jahren, Jens ^a   Bjørlykke, Knut ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OSLO   (Norway)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPACTION; GEOPHYSICAL PROSPECTING; MINERALS; PETROLEUM PROSPECTING; POROSITY; SAND; SEISMIC WAVES; SEISMOLOGY;

EMPIRICAL EQUATIONS; MECHANICAL COMPACTION; MINERALOGICAL COMPOSITIONS; ROCK PHYSICS MODEL; SEDIMENTARY FACIES; SEISMIC PROCESSING; SEISMIC VELOCITIES; VELOCITY PREDICTION;

VELOCITY;

EID: 84930453334     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1190/1.3513353     Document Type: Conference Paper

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