Electrical and petrophysical modeling of Ferron Sandstone data

Geophysics

Volumn 71, Issue 5, 2006, Pages

  Szerbiak, Robert B ^a,b   McMechan, George A ^a   Forster, Craig ^c   Snelgrove, Stephen H ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT DALLAS   (United States)

^b BOISE STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF UTAH   (United States)

Author keywords

Electrical conductivity; Permeability; Permittivity; Petrology; Porosity; Rocks

Indexed keywords

DIELECTRIC RELAXATION; ELECTRIC CONDUCTIVITY; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MECHANICAL PERMEABILITY; PERMITTIVITY; PETROLOGY; POROSITY; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; ROCKS;

DEBYE RELAXATION MECHANISM; PETROGRAPHIC ANALYSIS; PETROPHYSICAL VARIATIONS;

GEOPHYSICS;

DIELECTRIC PROPERTY; ELECTRICAL CONDUCTIVITY; ELECTRICAL METHOD; GROUND PENETRATING RADAR; MODELING; PERMEABILITY; PERMITTIVITY; RESERVOIR;

FERRON; NORTH AMERICA; UNITED STATES; UTAH;

EID: 33748863912     PISSN: 00168033     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1190/1.2235834     Document Type: Article

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