High Permeability of Young Oceanic Crust Constrained by Thermal and Pressure Observations

Land and Marine Hydrogeology

Volumn , Issue , 2003, Pages 165-188

  Wang, Kelin ^a,b   Davis, Earl E ^a,b  

^a Geological Survey of Canada Sidney   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF VICTORIA   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DISSIPATION RATES; FREQUENCY DEPENDENCE; HIGH PERMEABILITY; NOVEL STRATEGIES; ORDERS OF MAGNITUDE; PERMEABILITY DETERMINATIONS; PRESSURE VARIATIONS; SCALE DEPENDENCE;

BOREHOLES;

EID: 0038798771     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1016/B978-044451479-0/50023-6     Document Type: Chapter

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