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1 THE ROCK PHYSICS HANDBOOK TOOLS FOR SEISMIC ANALYSIS IN POROUS MEDIA Gary Mavko Tapan Mukerji Jack Dvorkin Stanford University Stanford University Stanford University CAMBRIDGE UNIVERSITY PRESS

2 CONTENTS Preface page ix PART 1: BASIC TOOLS The Fourier Transform The Hilbert Transform and Analytic Signal Statistics and Linear Regression Coordinate Transformations 14 PART 2: ELASTICITY AND HOOKE'S LAW Elastic Moduli - Isotropic Form of Hooke's Law Anisotropic Form of Hooke's Law Thomsen's Notation for Weak Elastic Anisotropy Stress-Induced Anisotropy in Rocks Strain Components and Equations of Motion in Cylindrical and Spherical Coordinate Systems Deformation of Inclusions and Cavities in Elastic Solids Deformation of a Circular Hole - Borehole Stresses Mohr's Circles 48 PART 3: SEISMIC WAVE PROPAGATION Seismic Velocities Phase, Group, and Energy Velocities 54

3 Vi CONTENTS 3.3 Impedance, Reflectivity, and Transmissivity Reflectivity and AVO AVOZ in Anisotropic Environments Viscoelasticity and Q " Kramers-Kronig Relations Between Velocity Dispersion and Q Waves in Layered Media: Full-Waveform Synthetic Seismograms Waves in Layered Media: Stratigraphic Filtering and Velocity Dispersion Waves in Layered Media: Frequency-Dependent Anisotropy and Dispersion Scale-Dependent Seismic Velocities in Heterogeneous Media Scattering Attenuation Waves in Cylindrical Rods - The Resonant Bar 100 PART 4: EFFECTIVE MEDIA Hashin-Shtrikman Bounds ' Voigt and Reuss Bounds Wood's Formula Hill Average Moduli Estimate Composite with Uniform Shear Modulus Rock and Pore Compressibilities and Some Pitfalls Kuster and Toksoz Formulation for Effective Moduli Self-Consistent Approximations of Effective Moduli Differential Effective Medium Model Hudson's Model for Cracked Media Eshelby-Cheng Model for Cracked Anisotropic Media Elastic Constants in Finely Layered Media - Backus Average 142 PART 5: GRANULAR MEDIA Packing of Spheres - Geometric Relations Random Spherical Grain Packings - Contact Models and Effective Moduli Ordered Spherical Grain Packings - Effective Moduli 160 PART 6: FLUID EFFECTS ON WAVE PROPAGATION Biot's Velocity Relations Geertsma-Smit Approximations of Biot's Relations Gassmann's Relations BAM - Marion's Bounding Average Method 177

4 CONTENTS Vii 6.5 Fluid Substitution in Anisotropic Rocks: Brown and Korringa's Relations Generalized Gassmann's Equations for Composite Porous Media Mavko-Jizba Squirt Relations Extension of Mavko-Jizba Squirt Relations for All Frequencies BISQ Anisotropic Squirt Common Features of Fluid-Related Velocity Dispersion Mechanisms Partial and Multiphase Saturations Partial Saturation: White and Dutta-Ode Model for Velocity Dispersion and Attenuation Waves in Pure Viscous Fluid Physical Properties of Gases and Fluids 214 PART 7: EMPIRICAL RELATIONS Velocity-Porosity Models: Critical Porosity and Nur's Modified Voigt Average Velocity-Porosity Models: Geertsma's Empirical Relations for Compressibility Velocity-Porosity Models: Wyllie's Time Average Equation Velocity-Porosity Models: Raymer-Hunt-Gardner Relations Velocity-Porosity-Clay Models: Han's Empirical Relations for Shaley Sandstones Velocity-Porosity-Clay Models: Tosaya's Empirical Relations for Shaley Sandstones Velocity-Porosity-Clay Models: Castagna's Empirical Relations for Velocities Vp-Vs Relations Velocity-Density Relations 250 PART 8: FLOW AND DIFFUSION Darcy'sLaw Kozeny-Carman Relation for Flow Viscous Flow Capillary Forces Diffusion and Filtration - Special Cases 268 PART 9: ELECTRICAL PROPERTIES Bounds and Effective Medium Models Velocity Dispersion and Attenuation Empirical Relations Electrical Conductivity in Porous Rocks 282

5 Viii CONTENTS PART 10: APPENDIXES Typical Rock Properties Conversions Moduli and Density of Common Minerals 306 References 313 Index 325

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