Understanding Seismic Anisotropy In Exploration And Exploitation

Wide-azimuth surveying has shown that most rocks are azimuthally anisotropic, with P-wave velocities and P-AVO gradients varying with azimuth. Analysis with narrow-azimuth algorithms and concepts will necessarily fail to exploit this data. This book shows how to recognise anisotropy effects in data and provides intuitive concepts to analyse it.