Texture and anisotropy analysis of Qusaiba shales

Geophysical Prospecting

Volumn 59, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 536-556

  Kanitpanyacharoen, Waruntorn ^a   Wenk, Hans Rudolf ^a   Kets, Frans ^b,c   Lehr, Christian ^c   Wirth, Richard ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LEEDS   (United Kingdom)

^c SHELL GLOBAL SOLUTIONS INTERNATIONAL B V   (United States)

^d GFZ GERMAN RESEARCH CENTRE FOR GEOSCIENCES   (Germany)

Author keywords

Anisotropy; Clay minerals; Preferred orientation; Shale

Indexed keywords

ANISOTROPY ANALYSIS; BEDDING PLANES; ELASTIC PROPERTIES; ILLITE-SMECTITE; MATRIX; MICRO-TOMOGRAPHY; MICROFRACTURES; NONPOROUS MATERIALS; ORIENTATION DISTRIBUTIONS; P-WAVE VELOCITY; POLE FIGURE; PREFERRED ORIENTATIONS; RANDOM DISTRIBUTION; RANDOM ORIENTATIONS; SAUDI ARABIA; SCANNING AND TRANSMISSION ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; SYNCHROTRON X RAY DIFFRACTION; ULTRASONIC EXPERIMENTS;

ANISOTROPY; ELASTICITY; KAOLIN; KAOLINITE; MICA; OPTIMIZATION; QUARTZ; SEISMIC WAVES; SHALE; SILICATE MINERALS; SINGLE CRYSTALS; TRANSMISSION ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; ULTRASONIC VELOCITY; ULTRASONIC VELOCITY MEASUREMENT; ULTRASONICS; VELOCIMETERS; VELOCITY; X RAY DIFFRACTION;

CRYSTAL ORIENTATION;

CLAY MINERAL; CRYSTAL STRUCTURE; ELASTIC PROPERTY; MICROSTRUCTURE; P-WAVE; PREFERRED ORIENTATION; SCANNING ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; SEISMIC ANISOTROPY; SHALE; TEXTURE; TRANSMISSION ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; X-RAY DIFFRACTION;

RUB AL KHALI;

EID: 79251589429     PISSN: 00168025     EISSN: 13652478     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2478.2010.00942.x     Document Type: Article

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