Factors controlling the variances of seismic velocity, density, thermal conductivity and heat production of cores from the KTB pilot hole

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 24, Issue 3, 1997, Pages 341-344

  Huenges, Ernst ^a  

^a GFZ GERMAN RESEARCH CENTRE FOR GEOSCIENCES   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTIC WAVE VELOCITY; CORE ANALYSIS; DATA REDUCTION; DENSITY (SPECIFIC GRAVITY); LITHOLOGY; SPECTROSCOPY; STATISTICAL METHODS; THERMAL CONDUCTIVITY OF SOLIDS; CHEMICAL ANALYSIS; MICA; MULTIVARIANT ANALYSIS; PRINCIPAL COMPONENT ANALYSIS; SEISMIC WAVES; SEISMOLOGY; SILICATE MINERALS; THERMAL CONDUCTIVITY; ULTRAVIOLET SPECTROSCOPY; VELOCITY;

PETROPHYSICAL DATA;

PETROLOGY; FACTOR ANALYSIS;

HEAT PRODUCTION; KTB PILOT HOLE; SEISMIC VELOCITY DENSITY; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; THERMAL CONDUCTIVITY;

GERMANY, BAVARIA;

EMPIRICAL RELATIONSHIPS; FEDERAL REPUBLIC OF GERMANY; MICRO-STRUCTURAL CHARACTERISTICS; PETROPHYSICAL DATUM; PETROPHYSICAL PARAMETERS; PRINCIPLE COMPONENT; REDUCTION OF PARAMETERS; SEISMIC VELOCITIES;

EID: 0031076320     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/96GL02890     Document Type: Article

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