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Research article
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09 Sep 2019
Research article |
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Electrical formation factor of clean sand from laboratory measurements and digital rock physics
Mohammed Ali Garba
Department of Geology, Gombe State University, Gombe, Nigeria
Exploration Geophysics, Curtin University, Perth, Australia
Stephanie Vialle
CORRESPONDING AUTHOR
Exploration Geophysics, Curtin University, Perth, Australia
Mahyar Madadi
Exploration Geophysics, Curtin University, Perth, Australia
Peter Cook Centre of Carbon Capture and Storage, The University of Melbourne, Melbourne, Australia
Boris Gurevich
Exploration Geophysics, Curtin University, Perth, Australia
CSIRO Energy, Perth, Australia
Maxim Lebedev
Exploration Geophysics, Curtin University, Perth, Australia
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Silvia Salas-Romero, Alireza Malehmir, Ian Snowball, and Benoît Dessirier
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Mehdi Asgharzadeh, Ashley Grant, Andrej Bona, and Milovan Urosevic
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Yaniv Darvasi and Amotz Agnon
Solid Earth, 10, 379–390, https://doi.org/10.5194/se-10-379-2019, https://doi.org/10.5194/se-10-379-2019, 2019
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The alluvial fan of Ghor Al-Haditha (Dead Sea) is affected by subsidence and sinkholes. Different models and hypothetical processes have been suggested in the past; high-resolution shear wave reflection surveys carried out in 2013 and 2014 showed the absence of evidence for a massive shallow salt layer as formerly suggested. Thus, a new process interpretation is proposed based on both the dissolution and physical erosion of Dead Sea mud layers.
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