A semi-empirical veocity-porosity-clay model for petrophysical interpretation of P- and S-velocities

Geophysical Prospecting

Volumn 46, Issue 3, 1998, Pages 271-285

  Goldberg, Igor ^a   Gurevich, Boris ^a  

^a GEOPHYSICAL INSTITUTE OF ISRAEL   (Israel)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLAY; PETROPHYSICS; POROSITY; VELOCITY; WAVE PROPAGATION;

CLAY MINERALS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; POROSITY; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SANDSTONE; SHALE;

PETROPHYSICAL INTERPRETATION;

GEOPHYSICAL PROSPECTING;

EID: 0031597246     PISSN: 00168025     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-2478.1998.00095.x     Document Type: Article

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