Carbonate Pore Systems: New Developments and Case Studies
Porosity Distribution and Evolution in Pleistocene Reefal Limestone: Implications For Scale‐Dependent Fluid Flow
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Published:January 01, 2019
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Viviana D. Diaz, Donald F. McNeill, Robert C. Goodin, James S. Klaus, 2019. "Porosity Distribution and Evolution in Pleistocene Reefal Limestone: Implications For Scale‐Dependent Fluid Flow", Carbonate Pore Systems: New Developments and Case Studies, Donald F. McNeill, Paul (Mitch) Harris, Eugene C. Rankey, Jean C.C. Hsieh
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The measurement of porosity and permeability in shallow-water carbonates is often complicated by the nature and degree of diagenesis, as well as the issue of scale-dependence in the measurement technique. Vertical profiles of hydraulic conductivity were calculated from short-interval straddle-packer injection tests in a three-well transect across the Pleistocene reefal limestone of the southern Dominican Republic (DR). Combined with whole-core porosity estimates and small-diameter (2.54 cm) plug estimates of matrix porosity and permeability, these data provide a means of assessing the scale-dependent petrophysical variability within a complex carbonate pore system, as well as the primary factors that control flow within...
- Acropora
- Acropora cervicornis
- Acropora palmata
- alteration
- Anthozoa
- Antilles
- aragonite
- biostratigraphy
- boreholes
- carbonate rocks
- carbonates
- Caribbean region
- cementation
- Cenozoic
- Cnidaria
- depositional environment
- diagenesis
- digital terrain models
- Dominican Republic
- fluid flow
- fluid injection
- Greater Antilles
- Hispaniola
- hydraulic conductivity
- infiltration
- injection
- limestone
- mathematical methods
- paleoenvironment
- permeability
- Pleistocene
- pore water
- Porites
- porosity
- Quaternary
- reef environment
- Santo Domingo Dominican Republic
- Scleractinia
- sedimentary rocks
- shallow-water environment
- tests
- viscosity
- vugs
- West Indies
- Zoantharia