Stress and stress release effects on acoustic velocities from cores, logs and seismics

SPWLA 40th Annual Logging Symposium 1999

Volumn , Issue , 1999, Pages

  Fjaer, Erling ^a   Holt, Rune M ^a,b,c  

^a SINTEF PETROLEUM RESEARCH   (Norway)

^b NORWEGIAN UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Norway)

^c NEW MEXICO INSTITUTE OF MINING AND TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTIC WAVE VELOCITY; SEISMOLOGY;

CORE MEASUREMENTS; LABORATORY EXPERIMENTS; SEISMIC STUDIES; SEISMIC VELOCITIES; STRESS CHANGES; STRESS CONDITION; STRESS RELEASE; VELOCITY ANISOTROPY;

YIELD STRESS;

EID: 85037306159     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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