Borehole estimates of fracture size

4th North American Rock Mechanics Symposium, NARMS 2000

Volumn , Issue , 2000, Pages 715-721

  Mauldon, M ^a  

^a University of Tennessee Knoxville   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ROCK MECHANICS;

BOREHOLE IMAGES; CIRCULAR FRACTURE; FRACTURE INTERSECTIONS; FRACTURE SIZE; ROCK CORE; SIMPLE METHOD;

FRACTURE;

EID: 84897513105     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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