ON THE SOLUTION OF ONE DIMENSIONAL ELASTIC WAVE PROPAGATION PROBLEMS IN STRATIFIED MEDIA BY THE METHOD OF CHARACTERISTICS

1960 ◽  
Vol 8 (2) ◽  
pp. 218-230 ◽  
Author(s):  
M. C. BLACK ◽  
E. W. CARPENTER ◽  
A. J. M. SPENCER
Keyword(s):  
Wave Propagation ◽  
Elastic Wave ◽  
Method Of Characteristics ◽  
Elastic Wave Propagation ◽  
Stratified Media ◽  
One Dimensional ◽  
The Method Of Characteristics

On the use of localization theory to characterize elastic wave propagation in randomly stratified 1-D media

Geophysics ◽  
1993 ◽  
Vol 58 (1) ◽  
pp. 177-179 ◽  
Author(s):  
John A. Scales
Keyword(s):  
Wave Propagation ◽  
Elastic Wave ◽  
Seismic Data ◽  
Effective Medium Theory ◽  
Low Frequency ◽  
Elastic Wave Propagation ◽  
Well Log ◽  
Medium Theory ◽  
One Dimensional ◽  
Localization Theory

In a series of papers Benjamin White, Ping Sheng, George Papanicolaou and others have described the application of localization theory to the study of elastic wave propagation in randomly stratified one‐dimensional (1-D) media. They describe methods for computing the localization parameters and apply the results to sonic well‐log data. In this note, I will show that, at least in the seismic band, the results of their calculations disagree with effective medium theory. This disagreement may to be due to the lack of low‐frequency information in exploration seismic data.

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