Characterization of porosity and permeability for CO2 sequestration models in the Mississippian Madison Group, Moxa Arch-LaBarge Platform, southwestern Wyoming

Rocky Mountain Geology

Volumn 45, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 133-150

  Thyne, Geoffrey D ^a   Tomasso, Mark ^a   Bywater Reyes, Sharon V ^a   Budd, David A ^b   Reyes, Brian M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WYOMING   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

Author keywords

Madison group; Permeability; Porosity; Stratigraphy

Indexed keywords

CARBON SEQUESTRATION; COVARIANCE ANALYSIS; FACIES; LITHOSTRATIGRAPHY; MISSISSIPPIAN; NUMERICAL MODEL; PERMEABILITY; POROSITY; SEQUENCE STRATIGRAPHY;

GREEN BASIN; UNITED STATES; WYOMING;

EID: 78649292361     PISSN: 15557332     EISSN: 15557340     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2113/gsrocky.45.2.133     Document Type: Article

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