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Volume 41 Number 7
  • E-ISSN: 1365-2478

Abstract

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Backus and Crampin derived analytical equations for estimating approximate phase‐velocity variations in symmetry planes in weakly anisotropic media, where the coefficients of the equations are linear combinations of the elastic constants. We examine the application of similar equations to group‐velocity variations in off‐symmetry planes, where the coefficients of the equations are derived numerically. We estimate the accuracy of these equations over a range of anisotropic materials with transverse isotropy with both vertical and horizontal symmetry axes, and with combinations of transverse isotropy yielding orthorhombic symmetry. These modified equations are good approximations for up to 17% shear‐wave anisotropy for propagations in symmetry planes for all waves in all symmetry systems examined, but are valid only for lower shear‐wave anisotropy (up to 11%) in off‐symmetry planes.

We also obtain analytical moveout equations for the reflection of ‐, and ‐ waves from a single interface for off‐symmetry planes in anisotropic symmetry. The moveout equation consists of two terms: a hyperbolic moveout and a residual moveout, where the residual moveout is proportional to the degree of anisotropy and the spread length of the acquisition geometry. Numerical moveout curves are computed for a range of anisotropic materials to verify the analytical moveout equations.

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