Practical approaches to identifying sealed and open fractures

American Association of Petroleum Geologists Bulletin

Volumn 87, Issue 4, 2003, Pages 561-579

  Laubach, Stephen E ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CEMENTS; FRACTURE MECHANICS; POROSITY; PRECIPITATION (CHEMICAL);

PORE-SPACE PRESERVATION;

PETROLEUM GEOLOGY;

FRACTURE; FRACTURE FLOW; FRACTURE NETWORK; PERMEABILITY; POROSITY; SAMPLING;

EID: 0038081059     PISSN: 01491423     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1306/11060201106     Document Type: Article

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