Laboratory measurements of the acoustic and transport properties of carbonate rocks and their link with the amount of microcrystalline matrix

Geophysics

Volumn 76, Issue 4, 2011, Pages

  Vanorio, Tiziana ^a   Mavko, Gary ^a  

^a STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTIC PROPERTIES; CALCITE; CARBONATION; COMPUTERIZED TOMOGRAPHY; DEPOSITION; FLOW OF FLUIDS; POROSITY; TEXTURES; TRANSPORT PROPERTIES;

CARBONATE ROCK; DEPOSITIONAL SETTING; INTERGRANULAR; LABORATORY DATUM; LABORATORY MEASUREMENTS; MACRO-POROSITY; PERMEABILITY INCREASE; QUANTITATIVE LINKS;

SEDIMENTARY ROCKS;

ACOUSTIC PROPERTY; CARBONATE ROCK; DEPOSITIONAL ENVIRONMENT; IMAGE ANALYSIS; LABORATORY METHOD; LEACHING; MACROPORE; PERMEABILITY; ROCK MICROSTRUCTURE; STIFFNESS; SYSTEMS TRACT; TRANSPORT PROCESS; TWO-DIMENSIONAL MODELING; WAVEFORM ANALYSIS;

GARGANO PROMONTORY; ITALY; PUGLIA;

EID: 84857318945     PISSN: 00168033     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1190/1.3580632     Document Type: Article

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