Response of submarine hydrologic monitoring instruments to formation pressure changes: Theory and application to Nankai advanced CORKs

Journal of Geophysical Research: Solid Earth

Volumn 113, Issue 1, 2008, Pages

  Sawyer, Audrey Hucks ^a,b   Flemings, Peter ^a,b   Elsworth, Derek ^a   Kinoshita, Masataka ^c  

^a PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN   (United States)

^c JAPAN AGENCY FOR MARINE EARTH SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BOREHOLE LOGGING; COMPRESSIBLE FLOW; DIFFUSIVITY; HYDRAULICS; HYDROLOGY; MONITORING SYSTEM; PERMEABILITY; TIDAL MODELING; WELL TECHNOLOGY;

ASIA; CHINA; EURASIA; FAR EAST; JAPAN; NANKAI; SHIKOKU; TIANJIN;

EID: 40749085106     PISSN: 21699313     EISSN: 21699356     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2007JB005132     Document Type: Article

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