Elastic constants and velocity surfaces of indurated anisotropic shales |
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Authors: | Joel E. Johnston Nikolas I. Christensen |
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Affiliation: | (1) Dept. of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences, Purdue University, 47907 W. Lafayette, IN, USA |
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Abstract: | The velocities of two Devonian-Mississippian shales have been measured to confining pressures of 200 MPa in a laboratory study of anisotropy and wave propagation. Both samples were found to be transversely isotropic at elevated pressures with the main symmetry axis perpendicular to bedding. The elastic constants of the shales were used to calculate phase and group velocity surfaces as a function of angle to the bedding normal. Multiple velocity measurements in non-symmetry directions, not undertaken in previously published studies of shales, have been used to confirm features observed on calculated velocity surfaces. It is demonstrated that velocities measured in non-symmetry directions are phase velocities. Group velocities were found to be significantly lower than the corresponding phase velocities of the shales due to their high anisotropies. Shear wave splitting was found to be negligible for propagation directions within approximately 30° of the bedding normals. |
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Keywords: | Vp vs laboratory anisotropy shales elastic constants velocity surfaces |
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