Shear wave splitting applications for fracture analysis and improved imaging: some onshore examples

Richard Bale, B. Gratacos, B. Mattocks, Steven L. Roche, Kostya Poplavskii, X. Li

First Break · 2009 · 42 citations · 3 references

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Abstract

Richard Bale, Bruno Gratacos, Bruce Mattocks, Steve Roche, Kostya Poplavskii and Xinxiang Li1 explain the value of shear wave splitting for reservoir characterization when using multi-component land seismic data. They illustrate the technique with data examples from the US and Canada.

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