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Seismic Traveltime Tomography in Anisotropic Black Shale  

Kang, Jong-Seok (Subsurface Information Technologies, Inc.)
Cha, Young-Ho (Subsurface Information Technologies, Inc.)
Lee, Kwang-Bae (Subsurface Information Technologies, Inc.)
Jo, Churl-Hyun (Subsurface Information Technologies, Inc.)
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Geophysics and Geophysical Exploration / v.10, no.4, 2007 , pp. 393-398 More about this Journal
Abstract
Seismic traveltime tomography technique was conducted at a site composed of black shale. It is well known that black shale has strong anisotropic property. Therefore, the anisotropic property of black shale has to be considered to obtain the appropriate subsurface velocity model by an inversion process. To estimate the anisotropic constant of the velocity of the black shale in the survey area, the relation between the velocity, which is calculated by the straight ray path and the first arrival time, and the angle of the ray propagation was examined. The elliptically shaped relation was found and it reveals that the black shale contains the anisotropic property of velocity. It was also noticed that the horizontal velocity is faster than the vertical velocity. When the estimated anisotropic constant was applied in the process of the velocity inversion for three sets of field data, we could obtain the appropriate velocity structures of the site that is consistent with the result of the geological survey.
Keywords
seismic traveltime tomography; black shale; anisotropy; the first arrival time; propagation angle; anisotropic ellipse;
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