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Simple Model for Lithological Anisotropy of Shale
- Publisher: European Association of Geoscientists & Engineers
- Source: Conference Proceedings, 68th EAGE Conference and Exhibition incorporating SPE EUROPEC 2006, Jun 2006, cp-2-00305
- ISBN: 978-90-73781-00-9
Abstract
We propose a simple model for lithological anisotropy that predicts the five distinct elastic constants for a transversely isotropic medium on the basis of three parameters. The predictions of the model show good agreement with experimental data on several shales.