Downhole seismic imaging of a massive sulfide orebody with mode-converted waves, Halfmile Lake, New Brunswick, Canada

GEOPHYSICS

Volumn 69, Issue 2, 2021, Pages 318-329

  Bellefleur, Gilles ^a   Müller, Christof ^b   Snyder, David ^a   Matthews, Larry ^c  

^a GEOLOGICAL SURVEY OF CANADA   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF KIEL   (Germany)

^c Hampson Russell   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DATA ACQUISITION; IMAGING TECHNIQUES; MINING; SCATTERING; SEISMIC PROSPECTING; SULFIDE MINERALS;

MODE-CONVERTED WAVES; SEISMIC IMAGING; SULFIDE LENSES;

GEOPHYSICS;

BOREHOLE GEOPHYSICS; MASSIVE SULFIDE; ORE BODY; SEISMIC METHOD;

CANADA; HALFMILE LAKE; NEW BRUNSWICK; NORTH AMERICA;

EID: 84988267239     PISSN: 00168033     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1190/1.1707051     Document Type: Article

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