ABSTRACT
King, 2005 recently summed up the major explorationrelated goals of rock physics research. They are ‘to understand how lithology, porosity, confining stress and pore pressure, pore fluid type and saturation, anisotropy and degree of fracturing, temperature, and frequency influence the velocities and attenuation of compressional P-and S-waves in sedimentary rocks’. At the end of this list the author added ‘and vice versa’, presumably emphasising the interactive and complex nature of the reality. Isolation of just two or three of these variables for intense, high quality investigation, clearly gives just a small increment to the overall understanding.
