Modeling elastic properties and assessing uncertainty of fracture parameters in the Middle Bakken Siltstone

Geophysics

Volumn 76, Issue 4, 2011, Pages

  Spikes, Kyle T ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ASPECT RATIO; ELASTIC MODULI; ELASTICITY; FRACTURE; POROSITY; SEISMOLOGY; STATISTICAL PHYSICS; STOCHASTIC MODELS; STOCHASTIC SYSTEMS;

ELASTIC PROPERTIES; FRACTURE PARAMETER; FRACTURE POROSITY; ROCK PHYSICS MODEL; SELF CONSISTENT MODELING; STIFFNESS CALCULATIONS; STOCHASTIC SIMULATIONS; VOLUMETRIC FRACTIONS;

UNCERTAINTY ANALYSIS;

BULK DENSITY; CHEMICAL COMPOSITION; COMPUTER SIMULATION; ELASTICITY; FRACTURE; IN SITU STRESS; MATRIX; NUMERICAL MODEL; PERMEABILITY; POROSITY; SEISMIC DATA; SEISMIC SURVEY; SILTSTONE; STIFFNESS; STOCHASTICITY; UNCERTAINTY ANALYSIS;

EID: 84857281694     PISSN: 00168033     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1190/1.3581129     Document Type: Article

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