Permeability-porosity relationship in vesicular basalts

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 26, Issue 1, 1999, Pages 111-114

  Saar, Martin O ^a   Manga, Michael ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OREGON   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BASALT; PERMEABILITY; POROSITY; VESICLE;

CRYSTAL MICROSTRUCTURE; POROSITY;

BUBBLE RADIUS; VESICULAR BASALT;

BASALT;

EID: 0032926473     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/1998GL900256     Document Type: Article

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