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

Abstract

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.