Modelling elastic properties of impure chalk from South Arne Field, North Sea

Geophysical Prospecting

Volumn 55, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 487-506

  Fabricius, Ida L ^a   Høier, Christian ^b,c   Japsen, Peter ^b   Korsbech, Uffe ^a  

^a TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF DENMARK   (Denmark)

^b GEOLOGICAL SURVEY OF DENMARK AND GREENLAND   (Denmark)

^c DONG Energy AS   (Denmark)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; ELASTIC MODULI; MINERALOGY; PETROGRAPHY; POROSITY; STIFFNESS; TEXTURES;

CHALK; HASHIN-SHTRIKMAN MODEL; MINERALOGICAL;

LIMESTONE;

CEMENTATION; CHALK; ELASTIC MODULUS; ELASTIC PROPERTY; MODELING; P-WAVE; PETROGRAPHY; POROSITY; S-WAVE;

ATLANTIC OCEAN; NORTH SEA;

EID: 34250304325     PISSN: 00168025     EISSN: 13652478     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2478.2007.00613.x     Document Type: Article

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