Electrical conductivity and P-wave velocity in rock samples from high-temperature Icelandic geothermal fields

Geothermics

Volumn 39, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 94-105

  Kristinsdóttir, Líney H ^a   Flóvenz, Ólafur G ^a   Árnason, Knútur ^a   Bruhn, David ^b   Milsch, Harald ^b   Spangenberg, Erik ^b   Kulenkampff, Johannes ^c  

^a ICELAND GEOSURVEY   (Iceland)

^b GFZ GERMAN RESEARCH CENTRE FOR GEOSCIENCES   (Germany)

^c Institut fur Interdisziplinare Isotopenforschung   (Germany)

Author keywords

Electrical conductivity; Geothermal; Hydrothermal alteration; Petrophysics; Temperature

Indexed keywords

ALTERATION ZONES; CATION EXCHANGE CAPACITIES; CONFINING PRESSURES; ELECTRICAL CONDUCTION MECHANISMS; ELECTRICAL CONDUCTIVITY; ELECTRICAL DOUBLE LAYERS; GEOTHERMAL AREAS; GEOTHERMAL SYSTEMS; HENGILL , ICELAND; HIGH TEMPERATURE; HYDROTHERMAL ALTERATION; HYDROTHERMAL ALTERATIONS; ICELANDICS; IN-SITU; INTERFACE CONDUCTIVITY; LITHOSTATIC PRESSURE; MINERAL-WATER INTERFACE; P-WAVE VELOCITY; PETROPHYSICS; PORE FLUID CONDUCTION; PORE FLUIDS; RESISTIVITY SURVEYS; ROCK SAMPLE; SMECTITES; STERN LAYER; TEMPERATURE COEFFICIENT; TIME-DEPENDENT EFFECTS;

ACOUSTIC WAVE VELOCITY; CLAY MINERALS; ELECTRIC CONDUCTIVITY; ION EXCHANGE; ION EXCHANGERS; SILICATE MINERALS;

GEOTHERMAL FIELDS;

CHLORITE; ELECTRICAL CONDUCTIVITY; EXPERIMENTAL STUDY; GEOTHERMAL SYSTEM; HIGH TEMPERATURE; HYDROTHERMAL ALTERATION; ION EXCHANGE; LABORATORY METHOD; P-WAVE; ROCK PROPERTY; SMECTITE; TEMPERATURE GRADIENT; TIME DEPENDENT BEHAVIOR; VELOCITY STRUCTURE;

HENGILL; ICELAND; KRAFLA;

EID: 77949274481     PISSN: 03756505     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.geothermics.2009.12.001     Document Type: Article

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