VSP fracture imaging with elastic reverse-time migration

2000 SEG Annual Meeting

Volumn , Issue , 2000, Pages

  Nihei, Kurt T ^a   Nakagawa, Seiji ^a   Myer, Larry R ^a  

^a LAWRENCE BERKELEY NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FRACTURE;

ACQUISITION GEOMETRY; DISCRETE FRACTURES; DOWNHOLE RECEIVERS; FRACTURE DETECTION; FRACTURED ROCK MASS; IMAGING CONDITIONS; REVERSE TIME MIGRATIONS; SEISMIC SIGNATURES;

SEISMIC PROSPECTING;

EID: 85054089645     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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