Petrophysical Properties and Microstructural Analysis of Faulted Heterolithic Packages: A Case Study from Miocene Turbidite Successions, Italy

Figure 11

Scatter plot indicating the permeability estimates with the Kozeny-Carman equation (k_K-C) versus the Euler characteristic. For the Kozeny-Carman equation [92, 93], it was assumed that both the tortuosity (equal 1.5) and pore shape factor (equal 5) are constant. Rock samples with a higher permeability, wider pores, and better connectivity (more pervious) are localized to the upper left area. Rock samples located to the right of the graph tend to have a poorly connected pore network (more impervious). Description of the samples is located in Table 2. Detailed results in Table 4. Samples in bold can be observed in Figure 12.