Fracture imaging with converted elastic waves

DC Rocks 2001 - 38th U.S. Symposium on Rock Mechanics (USRMS)

Volumn , Issue , 2001, Pages 1305-1311

  Nihei, K T ^a   Nakagawa, S ^a   Myer, L R ^a  

^a LAWRENCE BERKELEY NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ELASTIC WAVES; ROCK MECHANICS; ROCKS; SEISMIC PROSPECTING;

ACQUISITION GEOMETRY; CONVERTED WAVE; DIRECT WAVES; DISCRETE FRACTURES; FINITE LENGTH; IMAGING CONDITIONS; IMAGING METHOD; SEISMIC SIGNATURES;

FRACTURE;

EID: 84955612154     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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