Saturation, pore pressure and effective stress from sandstone acoustic properties

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 30, Issue 2, 2003, Pages

  Siggins, Anthony F ^a   Dewhurst, David N ^a  

^a CSIRO   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTICS; PORE PRESSURE; SATURATION (MATERIALS COMPOSITION); STRESSES; ACOUSTIC PROPERTIES; ACOUSTIC WAVE VELOCITY; ACOUSTIC WAVE VELOCITY MEASUREMENT; SANDSTONE; VELOCITY;

DRY ROCKS; DIFFERENTIAL PRESSURES; DRY CONDITION; EFFECTIVE STRESS; FLUID PRESSURES; MICROFRACTURES; OVERPRESSURE; SATURATED CONDITIONS;

SANDSTONE; PORE PRESSURE;

ACOUSTIC PROPERTY; EFFECTIVE STRESS; PORE PRESSURE; PRESSURE EFFECT; ROCK MECHANICS; SANDSTONE; SATURATED MEDIUM; SEISMIC VELOCITY; UNSATURATED MEDIUM;

EID: 0038266128     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2002GL016143     Document Type: Article

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