Retention of high permeability during shallow burial (300 to 500 m) of carbonate grainstones

Journal of Sedimentary Research

Volumn 78, Issue 8, 2008, Pages 548-561

  Melzer, Susan E ^a,b   Budd, David A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

^b Department of Environmental and Radiological Health Sciences   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CALCITE; CEMENTING (SHAFTS); CEMENTS; COMPACTION; GRAIN SIZE AND SHAPE; LIME; POROSITY; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SEDIMENTOLOGY; STRATIGRAPHY; TEXTURES;

DEPOSITIONAL ENERGIES; INITIAL PERMEABILITY; INTERGRANULAR PORES; INTERPARTICLE POROSITY; MULTIVARIATE REGRESSION; REGRESSION PARAMETERS; RESERVOIR DEVELOPMENT; THREE ORDERS OF MAGNITUDE;

PETROLEUM RESERVOIR ENGINEERING;

BURIAL DIAGENESIS; CEMENTATION; COMPACTION; GRAIN SIZE; GRAINSTONE; LIMESTONE; PERMEABILITY; POROSITY;

FLORIDA [UNITED STATES]; NORTH AMERICA; UNITED STATES;

FORAMINIFERA;

EID: 49049118949     PISSN: 15271404     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2110/jsr.2008.060     Document Type: Article

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