Multiple-Point Statistics for Modeling Facies Heterogeneities in a Porous Medium: The Komadugu-Yobe Alluvium, Lake Chad Basin

Mathematical Geosciences

Volumn 43, Issue 7, 2011, Pages 861-878

  Le Coz, Mathieu ^a   Genthon, Pierre ^a   Adler, Pierre M ^b  

^a UNIVERSITÉ DE MONTPELLIER   (France)

^b UNIVERSITÉ PIERRE ET MARIE CURIE   (France)

Author keywords

Facies modeling; Fluvial deposits; Komadugu Yobe River; Multiple point statistics; Variographic analysis

Indexed keywords

FACIES MODELING; FLUVIAL DEPOSITS; KOMADUGU-YOBE RIVER; MULTIPLE-POINT STATISTICS; VARIOGRAPHIC ANALYSIS;

GROUNDWATER; GROUNDWATER RESOURCES; LANDFORMS; POISSON DISTRIBUTION; POROUS MATERIALS;

THREE DIMENSIONAL;

ALGORITHM; CORRELATION; FLUVIAL DEPOSIT; GROUNDWATER RESOURCE; HETEROGENEITY; LANDSAT; NUMERICAL MODEL; POROUS MEDIUM; QUALITATIVE ANALYSIS; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; SATELLITE IMAGERY; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; VADOSE ZONE; VARIOGRAM;

KOMADUGU YOBE RIVER; LAKE CHAD; WEST AFRICA;

EID: 80053974002     PISSN: 18748961     EISSN: 18748953     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11004-011-9353-6     Document Type: Article

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