A laboratory procedure for estimating irreducible water saturation from cuttings

Log Analyst

Volumn 37, Issue 4, 1996, Pages 18-24

  Knight, Rosemary ^a,b,c   Tercier, Paulette ^a,d   Goertz, David ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

^b QUEEN S UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^c STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CUTTINGS; HYDRAULIC CONNECTIVITY; IRREDUCIBLE WATER SATURATION;

CAPILLARITY; DRYING; EVAPORATION; HYDRAULIC CONDUCTIVITY; SANDSTONE; SCALES (WEIGHING INSTRUMENTS); WATER; WEIGHING;

SATURATION (MATERIALS COMPOSITION);

EID: 0030189512     PISSN: 0024581X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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