A laboratory study of NMR relaxation times in unconsolidated heterogeneous sediments

Geophysics

Volumn 76, Issue 4, 2011, Pages

  Grunewald, Elliot ^a   Knight, Rosemary ^a  

^a STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GRAIN SIZE AND SHAPE; HEMATITE; MIXTURES; MOLECULES; RELAXATION TIME; SEDIMENTS;

CONTROLLED LABORATORIES; HETEROGENEOUS MIXTURES; HETEROGENEOUS REGION; HETEROGENEOUS SEDIMENTS; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE(NMR); PHYSIO-CHEMICAL PROPERTIES; RELAXATION TIME DISTRIBUTION; UNCONSOLIDATED SEDIMENT;

NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE;

DIFFUSION; GRAIN SIZE; HEMATITE; HETEROGENEITY; MINERALOGY; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE; PHYSICOCHEMICAL PROPERTY; QUARTZ; SEDIMENT PROPERTY; UNCONSOLIDATED MEDIUM;

EID: 84857284983     PISSN: 00168033     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1190/1.3581094     Document Type: Article

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