Physical Properties of Rocks: Fundamentals and Principles of Petrophysics

TLDR

Geoscientists rely largely on indirect geophysical measurements, with petrophysics providing the key link between observable data and subsurface properties. The book compiles extensive laboratory measurements of wave velocities, density, porosity, resistivity, thermal conductivity, and related properties performed under diverse conditions worldwide. No additional information.

Abstract

When you get right down to it, most of what geoscientists believe they know about the structure and workings of the solid earth is based very little on direct observation and to a great extent on interpreting geophysical measurements. The mortar that has been used to build that understanding—the ties between what we can get our hands on and what we can only measure—is petrophysics. Laboratory measurements of shear and compressional wave velocity, density, porosity, electrical resistivity, thermal conductivity, and a host of other properties have been carried out many thousands of times under differing conditions in laboratories throughout the world. While physical models and empirical relationships interrelating these properties have been built over time, curiously few attempts have been made to summarize this wide array of work in a single volume. Books focusing on laboratory techniques, particular properties (most notably acoustics), or physical theories have been written; however, when a student enters my office looking for help in translating seismic velocities in a particular setting into density, porosity, or lithology, I still find myself handing him or her a list of papers and book chapters rather than a single source. No more.