Some remarks on the estimation of fractal scaling parameters from borehole wire-line logs

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 24, Issue 10, 1997, Pages 1271-1274

  Dolan, Seán S ^a   Bean, Christopher J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE DUBLIN   (Ireland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BOREHOLES; CORRELATION METHODS; FRACTALS; FUNCTIONS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; PARAMETER ESTIMATION; SPECTRUM ANALYSIS; WELL LOGGING;

AUTOCORRELATION; BANDLIMITED FRACTALS EFFECT; BOREHOLE LOGS; FRACTAL SCALING; PETROPHYSICAL PROPERTIES; POWER SPECTRA ANALYSIS; VON KARMAN FUNCTION;

GEOPHYSICS;

BOREHOLE LOG; BOREHOLE LOGGING; FRACTAL ANALYSIS; FRACTAL SCALING; PETROPHYSICAL PROPERTIES;

EID: 0031142026     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/97GL00987     Document Type: Article

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