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Shear wave attenuation profile from sonic dipole well‐log data
Author(s) -
Sun Xinhua,
Frazer L. Neil
Publication year - 2000
Publication title -
geophysical research letters
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 2.007
H-Index - 273
eISSN - 1944-8007
pISSN - 0094-8276
DOI - 10.1029/1999gl005423
Subject(s) - attenuation , dipole , waveform , shear (geology) , geology , magnetic monopole , potential field , physics , acoustics , geophysics , optics , petrology , quantum mechanics , voltage
A shear wave attenuation profile is extracted from dipole waveform well‐log data. The method is demonstrated by applying it to synthetic data, and then to monopole and dipole field data for a hard formation. The attenuation profiles for the two types of field data agree remarkably well.