Modelling the DC electrical response of fully and partially saturated Permo-Triassic sandstone

Geophysical Prospecting

Volumn 54, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 351-367

  Taylor, Steve B ^a   Barker, Ron ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BIRMINGHAM   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ELECTRIC CONDUCTIVITY; ELECTROLYTES; GEOCHRONOLOGY; MATHEMATICAL MODELS;

CEMENTATION FACTOR; DC ELECTRICAL RESPONSE; HANAI-BRUGGEMAN EQUATIONS; WAXMAN-SMITS EQUATIONS;

SANDSTONE;

ELECTROMAGNETIC FIELD; PERMIAN; SANDSTONE; TRIASSIC;

EID: 33645746441     PISSN: 00168025     EISSN: 13652478     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2478.2006.00538.x     Document Type: Article

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