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An empirical relationship between thermal conductivity and elastic wave velocities in sandstone
Author(s) -
Zamora Maria,
VoThanh Dung,
Bienfait Gérard,
Poirier Jean Paul
Publication year - 1993
Publication title -
geophysical research letters
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 2.007
H-Index - 273
eISSN - 1944-8007
pISSN - 0094-8276
DOI - 10.1029/92gl02460
Subject(s) - thermal conductivity , quartz , geology , porosity , thermal , mineralogy , range (aeronautics) , thermodynamics , materials science , geotechnical engineering , composite material , physics , paleontology
Measurements in three samples of very clean quartz sandstone in the porosity range 4–16 %, under dry and 100 % water‐saturated conditions, show that P‐ and S‐wave velocities are linearly correlated with thermal conductivity. The experimental results agree with the theoretical relation between seismic velocities (predicted by the Kuster and Toksöz model (1974)) and thermal conductivity (predicted by weighted geometric mean).