Quantification of pore structure and its effect on sonic velocity and permeability in carbonates

American Association of Petroleum Geologists Bulletin

Volumn 93, Issue 10, 2009, Pages 1297-1317

  Weger, Ralf J ^a   Eberli, Gregor P ^a   Baechle, Gregor T ^a   Massaferro, Jose L ^b   Sun, Yue Feng ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MIAMI   (United States)

^b Desarroba de MAcacha

^c TEXAS A AND M UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTIC WAVE VELOCITY; ASPECT RATIO; CARBONATES; COMPLEX NETWORKS; COMPUTERIZED TOMOGRAPHY; MICROPOROSITY; PORE SIZE; PORE STRUCTURE; SEISMIC WAVES; WAVE PROPAGATION;

ACOUSTIC BEHAVIOR; COEFFICIENT OF DETERMINATION; COMBINED EFFECT; DIGITAL IMAGE ANALYSIS; INTERCRYSTALLINE; ORDERS OF MAGNITUDE; P-WAVE VELOCITY; SONIC VELOCITY;

PARAMETER ESTIMATION;

ACOUSTIC WAVE; CARBONATE ROCK; DIGITAL IMAGE; IMAGE ANALYSIS; P-WAVE; PERMEABILITY; POROSITY; ROCK PROPERTY; WAVE VELOCITY;

POA;

EID: 70549096051     PISSN: 01491423     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1306/05270909001     Document Type: Article

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