Seismic anisotropy in gas-hydrate- and gas-bearing sediments on the Blake Ridge, from a walkaway vertical seismic profile

Details Seismic anisotropy in gas-hydrate- and gas-bearing sediments on the Blake Ridge, from a walkaway vertical seismic profile Seismic anisotropy in gas-hydrate- and gas-bearing sediments on the Blake Ridge, from a walkaway vertical seismic profile

Jul 2003

adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=2003georl..30n...2p&link_type=abstract

Geophysical Research Letters, Volume 30, Issue 14, pp. 2-1, CiteID 1733, DOI 10.1029/2003GL017477

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Exploration Geophysics: Downhole Methods, Exploration Geophysics: Data Processing, Exploration Geophysics: Instruments And Techniques, Marine Geology And Geophysics: Marine Seismics (0935), Physical Properties Of Rocks: Acoustic Properties

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We present results from an analysis of anisotropy in marine sediments using walkaway vertical seismic profiles from the Blake Ridge, offshore South Carolina. We encountered transverse isotropy (TI) with a vertical symmetry axis in a gas-hydrate-bearing unit of clay and claystone with Thomsen parameters ɛ = 0.05 +/- 0.02 and δ = 0.04 +/- 0.06. TI increased to ɛ = 0.16 +/- 0.04 and δ = 0.19 +/- 0.12 in the underlying gas zone. Rock physics modeling suggests that the observed TI is caused by a partial alignment of clay particles rather than high-velocity gas-hydrate veins. Similarly, the increase of TI in the gas zone is not caused by thin low-velocity gas layers but rather, we speculate, by the sharp contrast between seismic properties of an anisotropic sediment frame and elongated gas-bearing pore voids. Our results underscore the significance of anisotropy for integrating near-vertical and wide-angle seismic data.

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