The authors developed a method to predict shear-wave velocity in shale sandstone, using the Gassmann’s equations and the Xu-White model. Numerical experiments show the variable aspect ratio method provides an important improvement in the application of the Xu-White model for sand-clay mixtures and allows for a variable aspect ratio log to be introduced into Xu-White model replacing the fixed aspect ratio assumption. This method has shown a significant improvement in predicting the velocities over the conventional Xu-White model.