Using empirical trends in fracture size-frequency data to constrain subsurface fracture abundance

44th US Rock Mechanics Symposium - 5th US/Canada Rock Mechanics Symposium

Volumn , Issue , 2010, Pages

  Hooker, J N ^a   Laubach, S E ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ABSOLUTE VALUES; AVERAGE SPACING; CATHODOLUMINESCENCE IMAGES; DATA SETS; FLUID FLOW; FRACTURE SIZE; FRACTURE SPACING; FRACTURED RESERVOIR; FREQUENCY DATA; INTENSITY MEASUREMENTS; MACROSCOPIC FRACTURES; MICRO-FRACTURE; MICROFRACTURES; NATURAL FRACTURE; POWER LAW EQUATION; POWER LAW EXPONENT; POWER LAW SCALINGS; POWER-LAW COEFFICIENTS; SCANNING ELECTRON MICROSCOPE; SIZE SCALE; SUBSURFACE FRACTURE; WELLBORE;

EXTRAPOLATION; FLOW OF FLUIDS; ROCK MECHANICS; ROCKS; SCANNING ELECTRON MICROSCOPY;

FRACTURE;

EID: 78751478348     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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