A new theoretical interpretation of Archie's saturation exponent

Glover, Paul W. J.

doi:https://doi.org/10.5194/se-8-805-2017

Articles | Volume 8, issue 4

https://doi.org/10.5194/se-8-805-2017

© Author(s) 2017. This work is distributed under
the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License.

https://doi.org/10.5194/se-8-805-2017

© Author(s) 2017. This work is distributed under
the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License.

Articles | Volume 8, issue 4

Research article

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26 Jul 2017

Research article |

| 26 Jul 2017

A new theoretical interpretation of Archie's saturation exponent

Paul W. J. Glover

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Final revised paper (published on 26 Jul 2017)
Preprint (discussion started on 15 Feb 2017)

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RC1: 'Review on Paper Manuscript se-2017-5: "A new theoretical interpretation of Archie’s saturation exponent" by Paul W. J. Glover', Harald Milsch, 13 Mar 2017
RC2: 'The comments for se-2017-5', Anonymous Referee #2, 01 Apr 2017
RC3: 'Archie's saturation exponent', Graham Heinson, 10 Apr 2017
AC1: 'Proposed red-lined revised MS', Paul Glover, 09 May 2017
AC2: 'Response to Reviewer's Comments', Paul Glover, 09 May 2017

Short summary

Electrical flow through porous media depends on the amount of conductive material available and how that material is connected. This has conventionally been described by two laws invented by Archie in 1942 which allowed only one conducting material and one non-conducting material. This paper contends that both laws arise from a single underlying law which allows for any number of materials, where their fractions sum to unity and a parameter describing their connectedness also sums to unity.