How porosity and permeability vary spatially with grain size, sorting, cement volume, and mineral dissolution in fluvial triassic sandstones: The value of geostatistics and local regression

Journal of Sedimentary Research

Volumn 81, Issue 12, 2011, Pages 844-858

  McKinley, J M ^a   Atkinson, P M ^b   Lloyd, C D ^a   Ruffell, A H ^a   Worden, R H ^c  

^a QUEEN'S UNIVERSITY BELFAST   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHAMPTON   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF LIVERPOOL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CEMENTS; DEPOSITION; GRAIN SIZE AND SHAPE; MINERALS; POROSITY; SANDSTONE; SORTING; STRATIGRAPHY; TEXTURES; URANIUM METALLOGRAPHY;

CONDITIONAL SIMULATIONS; CONTROLLING PARAMETERS; GEOGRAPHICALLY WEIGHTED REGRESSION; GEOSTATISTICAL APPROACH; PALEOENVIRONMENTAL RECONSTRUCTION; POINT-COUNT ANALYSIS; SPATIAL RELATIONSHIPS; SPATIAL VARIABILITY;

PETROLEUM RESERVOIR ENGINEERING;

CEMENT; DIAGENESIS; GEOSTATISTICS; GRAIN SIZE; PARTICLE SIZE; PERMEABILITY; POROSITY; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SANDSTONE; SORTING; TRIASSIC;

EID: 84867230536     PISSN: 15271404     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2110/jsr.2011.71     Document Type: Article

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