Rock fabric, pore geometry and mineralogy effects on water transport in fractured dolostones

Engineering Geology

Volumn 107, Issue 1-2, 2009, Pages 1-15

  Cueto, N ^a   Benavente, D ^a   Martinez Martinez J ^a   Garcia del Cura M A ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ALICANTE   (Spain)

^b Facultad de Ciencias Geológicas   (Spain)

Author keywords

Building rock; Dual porosity rock; Fracture density; Fractured rock; Rock fabric; Transport properties

Indexed keywords

ACCURATE PREDICTION; CALCITE-CEMENT; CAPILLARY RISE; CAPILLARY SUCTION; CEMENT CONTENT; CONVENTIONAL APPROACH; DOLOSTONES; DUAL-POROSITY ROCK; EXPERIMENTAL DATA; FRACTURE DENSITY; FRACTURED ROCK; GEOMETRIC FACTORS; GRAVITATIONAL FORCES; ISOTROPIC MATRIX; LINEAR MODEL; LOW RATES; MATRIX; MICRO-STRUCTURAL; MULTI VARIATE ANALYSIS; PORE GEOMETRY; PORE SURFACE; POROUS NETWORKS; RECTANGULAR PRISMS; REGRESSION MODEL; RETARDING EFFECT; ROCK FABRIC; ROCK FABRICS; SATURATED MEDIA; SPATIAL DISTRIBUTION; TEXTURAL CHARACTERISTIC; THEORETICAL STUDY; WATER TRANSPORT;

CALCITE; CAPILLARITY; CARBONATE MINERALS; CEMENTS; COMPUTATIONAL GEOMETRY; CONTACT ANGLE; CRYSTALLOGRAPHY; DECISION MAKING; EXPERIMENTAL MINERALOGY; FABRICS; GRAVITATION; LITHOLOGY; MINERALS; MULTIVARIANT ANALYSIS; PETROLOGY; POROSITY; PRINCIPAL COMPONENT ANALYSIS; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; ROCKS; SIZE DISTRIBUTION;

TRANSPORT PROPERTIES;

BULK DENSITY; DOLOSTONE; DUAL POROSITY; ESTIMATION METHOD; FISSURE; FRACTURE GEOMETRY; FRACTURED MEDIUM; MICROSTRUCTURE; MINERALOGY; NUMERICAL MODEL; PERMEABILITY; PETROFABRIC; PETROLOGY; POROUS MEDIUM; PREDICTION; PRINCIPAL COMPONENT ANALYSIS; REGRESSION ANALYSIS;

EID: 67349256372     PISSN: 00137952     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.enggeo.2009.03.009     Document Type: Article

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