Regional fracture network permeability using outcrop scale measurements

Engineering Geology

Volumn 108, Issue 3-4, 2009, Pages 259-271

  Chesnaux, R ^a   Allen, D M ^a   Jenni, S ^b  

^a SIMON FRASER UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b SCHLUMBERGER   (United States)

Author keywords

Discrete fracture network (DFN); Fracture scanline; Fractured rock aquifers; Groundwater modeling; Hydraulic conductivity tensor

Indexed keywords

BOREHOLE LOGGING; DISCRETE FRACTURE NETWORK (DFN); DISCRETE FRACTURE NETWORK MODELS; EFFECTIVE HYDRAULIC CONDUCTIVITIES; FLOW MODEL; FRACTURE DATA; FRACTURE NETWORK; FRACTURED AQUIFER; FRACTURED ROCK; FRACTURED ROCK AQUIFERS; GROUNDWATER MODELING; HIGH RESOLUTION DATA; HYDRAULIC PROPERTIES; IN-CORE; MATRIX; MODELING STUDIES; OIL AND GAS EXPLORATION; PUMPING TEST DATA; PUMPING TESTS; REGIONAL GROUNDWATER; REGIONAL SCALE; SCANLINE; SEISMIC DATAS; SMALL SCALE; SPATIAL VARIABILITY; STRUCTURAL DISCONTINUITY; THREE DIMENSIONS; UPSCALING;

AQUIFERS; CAPILLARITY; FRACTURE; GROUNDWATER FLOW; GROUNDWATER RESOURCES; HYDRAULIC CONDUCTIVITY; HYDROGEOLOGY; LITHOLOGY; PETROLEUM PROSPECTING; PUMPS; ROCKS; SEISMOLOGY; TENSORS;

MATRIX ALGEBRA;

AQUIFER; BEDROCK; FRACTURED MEDIUM; GROUNDWATER FLOW; HYDRAULIC CONDUCTIVITY; MODELING; OUTCROP; PERMEABILITY;

EID: 70249136799     PISSN: 00137952     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.enggeo.2009.06.024     Document Type: Article

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