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JOURNAL OF EARTH SCIENCE
Volume 26, Issue 6, Pages 785-790Publisher
CHINA UNIV GEOSCIENCES, BEIJING
DOI: 10.1007/s12583-015-0613-0
Keywords
fractured rocks; seismic attenuation; WIFF; fracture connectivity; embedding matrix; Biot's theory
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- Swiss National Science Foundation
- Agencia Nacional de Promocion Cientifica y Tecnologica, Argentina [PICT 2010-2129]
- Fondation Herbette of the University of Lausanne
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An important characteristic of fractured rocks is their high seismic attenuation, which so far has been mainly attributed to wave-induced fluid flow (WIFF) between the fractures and the embedding matrix. The influence of fracture connectivity on seismic attenuation has, however, recently, only been investigated. Numerical compressibility and shear tests based on Biot's quasi-static poro-elastic equations illustrate that an important manifestation of WIFF arises in the presence of fracture connectivity. The corresponding energy loss, which can be significant for both P- and S-waves, is mainly due to fluid flow within the connected fractures and is sensitive to the permeabilities as well as the lengths and intersection angles of the fractures. Correspondingly, this phenomenon contains valuable information on the governing hydraulic properties of fractured rocks and hence should be accounted for whenever realistic seismic models of such media are needed.
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