Modeling attenuation anisotropy and its interpretation in terms of fracture properties

SEG Technical Program Expanded Abstracts

Volumn 22, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 109-112

  Maultzsch, Sonja ^a   Liu, Enru ^a   Chapman, Mark ^a  

^a BRITISH GEOLOGICAL SURVEY   (United Kingdom)

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EID: 84955116427     PISSN: 10523812     EISSN: 19494645     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1190/1.1817466     Document Type: Conference Paper

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