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Volume 18 Number 4
  • E-ISSN: 1365-2478

Abstract

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The relationship between porosity and formation factor in unconsolidated homogeneous and anisotropic sediments without granule‐liquid interaction is investigated by introducing a parametric model that simulates a variable cellular structure.

In this hypothesis, porosity φ and ‐factor are calculated for some fixed values of the parameter, solving numerically two integral expressions.

From these calculations the form of the function φ=, corresponding to the proposed model, has been deduced. This relation is in very good agreement with Archie's empirical law for unconsolidated sands which requires that =φ‐‐1,3. Therefore it seems that the validity of Archie's law is theoretically confirmed for the unconsolidated sediments considered in this paper.

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