Velocity-permeability relations within hydraulic units

Geophysics

Volumn 68, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 108-117

  Prasad, Manika ^a  

^a STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CORRELATION METHODS; MAGNETIC PERMEABILITY; POROSITY; ROCKS; SEISMOLOGY; ACOUSTIC WAVE VELOCITY; DATA REDUCTION; MECHANICAL PERMEABILITY; SEDIMENTS; SEISMIC WAVES; WAVE PROPAGATION; WELL LOGGING;

CORRELATION COEFFICIENTS; CORRELATION COEFFICIENT; HYDRAULIC UNITS; LABORATORY MEASUREMENTS; LARGE DATASETS; MODEL RESULTS; SEISMIC PROPERTIES; SEISMIC VELOCITIES; SITE-SPECIFIC;

HYDRAULIC EQUIPMENT; CORRELATION METHODS;

CLASSIFICATION; HYDRAULIC PROPERTY; PERMEABILITY; SEISMIC VELOCITY;

EID: 0037219536     PISSN: 00168033     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1190/1.1543198     Document Type: Article

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