Influence of macro-fractures and micro-fractures on permeability and elastic wave velocities in basalt at elevated pressure

Tectonophysics

Volumn 503, Issue 1-2, 2011, Pages 52-59

  Nara, Yoshitaka ^a,b   Meredith, Philip George ^a   Yoneda, Tetsuro ^b   Kaneko, Katsuhiko ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b HOKKAIDO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Basalt; Elastic wave velocities; Fractures; Permeability; Pressure

Indexed keywords

CRUSTAL ROCKS; EFFECTIVE PRESSURE; ELASTIC WAVE VELOCITIES; ELASTIC WAVE VELOCITY; ELEVATED PRESSURE; FLUID FLOW; FLUID PERMEABILITY; FRACTURE NETWORK; KEY PROBLEMS; KNOW-HOW; LOW PRESSURES; PERMEABILITY; PERMEABILITY REDUCTION; PORE WATERS; ROCK ENGINEERING; S-WAVE VELOCITY; WAVE VELOCITY;

BASALT; CRYSTALLINE ROCKS; ELASTIC WAVES; FLOW OF FLUIDS; SOIL STRUCTURE INTERACTIONS; TRANSPORT PROPERTIES; VELOCITY; WAVES;

FRACTURE;

BASALT; ELASTIC WAVE; FLUID FLOW; FRACTURE; PERMEABILITY; POREWATER; PRESSURE EFFECT; WAVE VELOCITY;

EID: 79954659173     PISSN: 00401951     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.tecto.2010.09.027     Document Type: Article

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