Scales of rock permeability

Surveys in Geophysics

Volumn 17, Issue 3, 1996, Pages 245-263

  Gueguen Y ^a   Gavrilenko, P ^a   Le Ravalec, M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ DE RENNES 1   (France)

Author keywords

Crust; Permeability; Rocks; Scale

Indexed keywords

ANISOTROPY; CRACKS; FLOW MEASUREMENT; IMAGE ANALYSIS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MECHANICAL PERMEABILITY; PETROLOGY; POROSITY; PRESSURE EFFECTS; THERMAL EFFECTS; THERMAL EXPANSION; TRANSPORT PROPERTIES;

CRUST; DARCY UNITS; MERCURY POROSIMETRY; NITROGEN ADSORPTION; PORE SIZE; ROCK PERMEABILITY; THERMAL CRACKING;

ROCKS;

PERMEABILITY; SCALE EFFECT;

EID: 0030135569     PISSN: 01693298     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/BF01904043     Document Type: Article

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