Permeability prediction based on fractal pore-space geometry

Geophysics

Volumn 64, Issue 5, 1999, Pages 1447-1460

  Pape, Hansgeorg ^a,b   Clauser, Christoph ^a   Iffland, Joachim ^c  

^a LEIBNIZ INSTITUTE FOR APPLIED GEOPHYSICS   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BONN   (Germany)

^c LUNG Mecklenburg Vorpommern   (Germany)

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EID: 0000222410     PISSN: 00168033     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1190/1.1444649     Document Type: Article

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