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CROSS‐BOREHOLE OBSERVATION OF MODE CONVERSION FROM BOREHOLE STONELEY WAVES TO CHANNEL WAVES AT A COAL LAYER 1
Author(s) -
ALBRIGHT JAMES N.,
JOHNSON PAUL A.
Publication year - 1990
Publication title -
geophysical prospecting
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.735
H-Index - 79
eISSN - 1365-2478
pISSN - 0016-8025
DOI - 10.1111/j.1365-2478.1990.tb01865.x
Subject(s) - borehole , geology , coal , rayleigh wave , coal mining , dispersion (optics) , channel (broadcasting) , seismology , geophysics , mineralogy , geotechnical engineering , wave propagation , optics , chemistry , telecommunications , engineering , physics , organic chemistry
A bstract Conversion of borehole Stoneley waves to channel waves was observed in data from a seismic cross‐borehole experiment conducted between wellbores penetrating a thin coal layer at 2022 m depth, near Rifle, Colorado. Traveltime moveout observations show that borehole Stoneley waves underwent partial conversion to channel waves at the coal layer. The channel waves were detected directly in an adjacent borehole 35 m away at receiver positions within the coal. Stoneley waves, subsequently produced by partial conversion of channel waves, were also detected at receiver positions located up to 50 m above and below the coal layer in the adjacent borehole. We infer the channel wave to be the first‐higher Rayleigh mode by comparing the observed group velocity with theoretically derived dispersion curves. Identifying the conversion between borehole and stratigraphically guided waves is significant because coal penetrated by multiple wells may be detected without placing a transmitter or receiver in the coal itself.