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00:00 | good. Alrighty. Welcome to Rock . Oh by the way, let |
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00:11 | ask. Do you do you have spreadsheet with you? The spreadsheet on |
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00:16 | computer. Yeah, so um we stop recording for a minute. Um |
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00:27 | right, welcome to Rock Physics There we go. Okay, so |
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00:36 | the way, this is all in ford. So this contact info is |
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00:40 | there and any questions along the The best way to get immediate response |
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00:48 | me is email. So there's my but and I normally I usually don't |
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00:56 | this, but I have in my class. So here's my cell phone |
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00:59 | . Right? So you can call but please don't don't pass that |
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01:05 | Okay, so how are you going be graded in the class? Uh |
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01:11 | in class. So we're gonna be exercises and um you know, just |
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01:16 | through all those in participating in class questions and answering questions and then there's |
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01:24 | final exam and by the way we'll giving certificates along the way and that |
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01:30 | have to be based on your class and exercises. So here's the course |
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01:41 | . I always start with a highly introduction. Get you excited about taking |
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01:47 | course and then the topics will be space properties, porosity, and permeability |
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01:55 | , which is a fundamental component of impedance. Also important for gravity type |
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02:04 | . Um We'll move on to basic mechanics. Uh that's really the mathematical |
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02:11 | for rock physics. So we'll go that. But there are also important |
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02:17 | like in hydraulic fracturing shales. Wellbore so we'll uh we'll do better rock |
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02:25 | . Um I then want to talk pressure because there are different types of |
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02:31 | pressure is really important for drilling. important for production and so forth. |
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02:37 | it has a first order influence on velocities. So we'll cover some pressure |
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02:45 | then move on to seismic velocities and factors controlling compression and shear wave |
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02:53 | That's really kind of the meat of course. That's what everything else is |
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02:57 | towards. And we'll talk about VP B. S. Ratios and these |
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03:02 | important uh in a video analysis. for direct hydrocarbon indication and also for |
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03:10 | elastic module I like in unconventional reservoirs so forth. And finally uh we'll |
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03:18 | with fluid properties and fluid substitution. do modular velocities change as we change |
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03:26 | fluids in the rock or we changed fluid properties in the rock. Uh |
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03:33 | we have time and we didn't get last year, we'll also get into |
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03:38 | more advanced topics like composite media and and dispersion. If you want additional |
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03:50 | to supplement my lectures in the that I'm not perfectly clear and haven't |
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03:57 | covered everything to your satisfaction. Uh here are a variety of books. |
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04:02 | Given the short timeframe of the you may not really have time to |
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04:07 | them although um S E. For example uh that offers vernon X |
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04:14 | . Uh they offer that online so can um his book is is really |
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04:21 | good in the sense that he's got lot of brilliant insights. Uh It |
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04:27 | sometimes a little bit hard going and terms of understanding exactly the points he's |
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04:36 | to make, but really excellent insight into shells. There are some important |
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04:46 | now on blackboard. I posted a of papers, so if I put |
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04:52 | there on blackboard, uh they're important to be there, right, because |
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04:57 | are thousands of papers to choose right? So if I posted on |
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05:01 | , I think it's a particularly good . Uh But so but the very |
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05:07 | of the best, in my opinion relevant to this course are these |
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05:13 | Gardner and Gregory uh in geophysics, where the famous gardener relationship comes |
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05:20 | if you've heard of that one. Gregory also has an excellent review paper |
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05:27 | a pg memoir, 26 it's out print. Uh But like I |
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05:32 | uh look to see what's in you never know what you'll find |
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05:37 | That's all I can say on the . And um my paper and my |
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05:44 | 93 S E G A B O offset dependent reflectivity uh is very relevant |
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05:52 | to what I'm teaching. So you'll a lot of the same materials and |
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05:56 | there when we get into fluid substitution smith has a very excellent tutorial 1993 |
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06:05 | think in geophysics. Um And um I said there's there's a lot loaded |
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06:12 | blackboard so you have a lot to from. So you should have no |
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06:17 | of supplementary reading, although we don't an official textbook. Okay, so |
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06:25 | always like to start with discussion of method a little bit because I think |
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06:31 | is often lacking in our in our work. Right? We um we |
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06:39 | right into the subject matter and somewhere the line, I think a discussion |
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06:43 | of scientific method is important. I it lacking in a lot of our |
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06:49 | and the fundamental building block of the method is the concept of a |
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06:58 | So I'm gonna ask the question. both welcome to answer what is a |
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07:08 | . What ah you finally hit it explanation. So a lot of students |
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07:18 | it's what you predict will happen or you hypothesize is. But really what |
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07:24 | is is an explanation for observation. so in the earth sciences we have |
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07:31 | specific meaning of the term hypothesis, explanation for an observation. There is |
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07:38 | hill over there. Why is that there? Right. So that explanation |
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07:45 | the hypothesis um in other disciplines that have other meanings, but for us |
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07:51 | not a prediction. A prediction may from a hypothesis, but it's not |
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07:55 | prediction. It's an explanation, stoke is an explanation for observations. And |
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08:06 | a very important point is hypothesis How do we test the hypothesis? |
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08:14 | is an attempt to disprove the And again, this is where students |
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08:22 | go very wrong. They feel that test a hypothesis by trying to prove |
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08:29 | . But the fact of the matter you can't ever prove a hypothesis. |
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08:34 | strictly speaking, there is no such as proving a hypothesis true. Not |
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08:41 | the earth sciences. You can show consistent with data that's called confirming, |
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08:48 | really confirming it's called supporting the hypothesis you can fail to falsify the hypothesis |
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08:57 | your hypothesis testing should be designed to to falsify the hypothesis and you |
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09:05 | we're we've been were very negligent in petroleum industry for example, in because |
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09:11 | acquire a lot of data. So fact we're doing a lot of experiments |
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09:16 | often our experiments are badly designed because design our experiments to support the hypothesis |
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09:25 | as a result is not necessarily the data to test the hypothesis. Or |
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09:31 | much emphasis is made in acquiring data do not have the opportunity to falsify |
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09:39 | hypothesis. So that's something for you carry in your future career, keeping |
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09:45 | in mind. How am I going spend my money? Okay, so |
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09:51 | hypothesis is a proposed explanation for an phenomenon. Uh so in order to |
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10:02 | part of the scientific method, the must be a valid hypothesis must be |
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10:10 | if you cannot test the hypothesis if if there's no experiment that could be |
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10:15 | to falsify the hypothesis. It's not speaking, a hypothesis for our |
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10:22 | Um, so typically a hypothesis arises an attempt to explain observations that cannot |
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10:35 | explained or that don't have a ready with existing scientific theories. Okay, |
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10:43 | the question arises. What's the difference a hypothesis and a theory? |
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10:49 | So we talk about the theory of , Right. That's a theory. |
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10:56 | does that differ from my hypothesis? , the theory of gravitation came around |
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11:02 | describe how an apple was falling right a tree. So the theory of |
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11:09 | was an attempt to explain an So in fact there's no difference between |
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11:18 | hypothesis and theory in terms of being to explain an observation. Right? |
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11:24 | what is the difference between a hypothesis theory? It's just a matter of |
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11:29 | . You may think of a hypothesis a small theory. A theory |
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11:35 | Uh further ranging it may be a concept. It uh, can explain |
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11:44 | more and it has more scientific Right? But essentially a theory is |
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11:53 | grandiose hypothesis. Let's put it that . Okay, so, um, |
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12:00 | the earth sciences, we often uh have the near term ability to test |
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12:11 | hypothesis. Like um, the volcanic in the middle of the ocean is |
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12:20 | due to plate tectonics. Right? do you actually test that? |
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12:27 | So even though theoretically it may be , it may practically, in the |
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12:32 | term not be testable, but science has to advance. Right? So |
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12:37 | we do is we have the concept the working hypothesis. Right? So |
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12:45 | going to go with this hypothesis for time being. That's a working |
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12:51 | Even though it had, we haven't the opportunity to fully test it as |
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12:56 | as it holds together and it explains data we have um we're gonna go |
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13:03 | it and we're gonna build upon That's a working hypothesis. Now in |
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13:09 | geosciences we have a tendency to have hypotheses that can explain a phenomenon |
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13:19 | You can explain uh continental drift with tectonics or with media radic impact, |
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13:27 | example, I've heard, or with gravity gravitational assist ISI. So there |
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13:33 | been other ways of explaining the same . Um So in the geosciences, |
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13:42 | frequently are faced with the situation of working hypothesis. We have many explanations |
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13:50 | at the same time and we're carrying all and the stronger ones survive and |
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13:57 | weaker ones fall by the wayside as as science advances. Right, |
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14:07 | So which of the following are The Earth's diameter is 8000 miles. |
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14:16 | temperature will increase by 1°C in the 20 years or three fluctuations in global |
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14:23 | over time are primarily caused by natural , which whether you agree with these |
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14:31 | not, which is a hypothesis. is the only hypothesis here. The |
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14:40 | one is an observation that is the . The 2nd 1 is a prediction |
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14:48 | results from a hypothesis, anthropomorphic greenhouse or something. That's the working |
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14:58 | Um Number three, if I added time, um that would be pretty |
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15:04 | accepted as being true. But that a hypothesis because it explains natural |
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15:11 | What are they a variety of natural ? Uh sunspots in the sun for |
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15:19 | . So variations and solar radiation or radio volcanic activity or whatever. There |
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15:28 | a variety of ways to explain over over geological time, mean surface temperatures |
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15:38 | . Okay, so you could think the scientific method as kind of a |
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15:45 | circular type operation where you start with observation here at the top and um |
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15:54 | we want to explain these observations. the first step is to know the |
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16:01 | matter. Right? So research the , find out what other people are |
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16:08 | . Um then formulate your hypothesis, the hypothesis with an experiment or data |
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16:16 | of some kind analyze the data and wish we would do this in a |
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16:23 | statistically rigorous way. Often. We don't, we should, I'll touch |
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16:29 | that briefly and report your conclusions and release that to the scientific computed |
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16:38 | Get feedback and then come back and . The process is more data is |
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16:45 | . The one of the problems with approach is in researching the topic |
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16:53 | You are are distorting your mental You begin to establish a paradigm in |
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17:02 | mind that where you're following the paths what other people have said and done |
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17:10 | that removes a little bit of So I think it's often useful to |
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17:17 | the hypothesis forward before understanding the topic . Well, I mean there's no |
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17:24 | in forming a hypothesis. You can abandon it when when, when you |
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17:30 | better. Right, okay. And want to contrast geoscience hypothesis testing from |
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17:41 | hypothesis testing. Um they're really fundamentally different things. A statistical hypothesis is |
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17:52 | testing an explanation, but it's testing observation and relations that are apparent from |
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18:01 | observations. Right? So there's no or geo science behind it? We're |
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18:08 | explaining the observation. We're just seeing it's related to other data. And |
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18:17 | particular in statistical hypothesis testing, we if the observation could result by random |
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18:28 | . So suppose my observation is a between two variables. Is there a |
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18:35 | that that correlation is just by So we call that trusting testing the |
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18:43 | hypothesis. So for example, um do a regression between velocity and ferocity |
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18:51 | I find a linear correlation between the with a given correlation coefficients a |
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19:00 | What is the probability that that correlation ? Just by random chance. So |
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19:04 | is the probability that just is taking mean value? The mean velocity, |
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19:11 | could have predicted that just as Using the mean value as with this |
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19:16 | line? Um if I only had points, two points would firm would |
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19:23 | a perfect line. Right. So linear relationship from two points has no |
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19:28 | significance. Think about three points. is a probability that if I take |
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19:35 | random points, there's a probability that exist on a straight line. |
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19:41 | Usually it'll form a curve, but some chance it would fall on the |
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19:46 | . So, um the fewer data I have and the more independent variables |
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19:52 | use to make a prediction, the chance that that correlation is just accidental |
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19:59 | has no meaning. So, so uh a typical uh statistical |
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20:09 | if I measure two populations and population has a mean value that's larger than |
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20:19 | B. So one set of rocks a mean ferocity. Another set of |
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20:24 | has a mean ferocity. You could yourself the question. What is the |
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20:30 | that remember these populations are just sampled a larger population. Right. We |
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20:35 | sampled all rocks. Right. So have one sample of a population a |
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20:42 | in north America. I have another of the population maybe in europe? |
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20:48 | there's a difference in the mean value those ferocity is, can I say |
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20:54 | has higher porosity is than europe. I make that generalization? Well, |
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21:00 | is the statistical significance of that difference the mean, remembering that I haven't |
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21:05 | the entire population. If I have the entire population then the difference in |
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21:10 | mean is statistically significant. So how points do I need? You know |
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21:17 | there is 10,000 data points enough to able to say there's a statistically significant |
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21:22 | in the mean, It depends on variance of the data. If all |
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21:27 | porosity measurements were exactly the same, would take very few points to conclude |
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21:33 | a statistical significance. But if I a broad distribution in America and a |
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21:38 | distribution of values, remembering that I've done a poll, I just used |
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21:45 | few data points of the entire And with all that spread, am |
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21:50 | truly representing the mean value of the ? So, so I have to |
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21:55 | a statistical significance test. And so actually will measure we can well, |
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22:01 | have to make some assumptions, assumptions Gaussian distributed otherwise. It gets very |
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22:07 | . But I could actually come up a number that gives me the probability |
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22:13 | the mean is is significantly different and smaller that probability uh the more explanation |
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22:22 | needed to believe the difference. So if I have a hypothesis explaining |
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22:28 | difference and I strongly believe in that , I may accept that difference as |
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22:35 | true. Even if I don't have high score of statistical significance. |
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22:44 | so let's get into the course So rock physics. So what is |
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22:51 | rock? We should know what we're what's the definition of Iraq. |
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23:06 | so I think sociology went over. , so it's an aggregate thing. |
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23:14 | like that. I like that. actually a good definition. Um If |
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23:19 | go into the geological dictionary it will it's an aggregate of minerals. But |
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23:26 | fact there are other things in rocks minerals like fluids and organic, some |
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23:33 | matter is quite amorphous. It does not a crystalline solid. So it |
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23:37 | really classify as a mineral. So it's it's a an aggregate of |
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23:44 | let's say a naturally occurring aggregate of . Okay, so then what is |
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23:50 | physics got to be a little more than that? Yes, I don't |
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24:07 | . Yeah. So um suppose I a stone and suppose I throw it |
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24:13 | trajectory of that stone follows the science ballistics. Is that rock physics? |
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24:22 | . So in physics we're specifically thinking how the rocks respond to mechanical stress |
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24:32 | applied to the rocks. So that's be the entire thing we study, |
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24:37 | know, passing a seismic way through is providing a mechanical stress to the |
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24:44 | . So how the rock deforms over very short time period to this mechanical |
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24:51 | is what we study in rock Um Okay, well that Alright, |
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24:58 | restricted the signs of rock physics. shouldn't say mechanical stress. Let me |
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25:03 | to stimulate geophysical stimuli. Okay, it could be elected. We could |
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25:09 | thinking about electrical? We could be about thermal conductivity. Even though I'm |
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25:13 | gonna hit those in this course, are all aspects of rock physics. |
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25:19 | , why is it important? Why is this the required course? |
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25:34 | it underlies, let's put it that . It underlies all geophysical measurements. |
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25:40 | . It's the medium that we're Okay. So what are the primary |
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25:47 | that control the geophysical properties of Yeah, you could include those. |
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26:00 | what what controls the strength of Iraq example. Huh? Okay. The |
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26:11 | . Uh, Okay. Let's differentiate solid and fluid constituents. Right. |
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26:16 | , uh, as this as the and the fluids change as the solid |
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26:22 | and the fluids change the rock properties change. What else? So, |
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26:26 | it's made of? That's one What else is critical beyond what it's |
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26:34 | of? All right. But we're we're trying to say what controls how |
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26:45 | responds to the outside stimulate. So what it's made of right |
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26:55 | how those things are put together. ? So, we talk about the |
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27:00 | arrangement and how those things are Like cement, how they're cemented |
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27:10 | how their lip defied. So degree lytham fication is a big thing. |
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27:15 | , composition arrangement, degree of with . There's one more very important controlling |
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27:30 | development where the temperature. So the conditions. And let me also say |
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27:39 | composition if I specify the composition and have solid materials and fluid materials. |
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27:48 | I add up all the solid fraction all the fluid fraction that gives me |
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27:53 | ferocity? So that is also a factor in affecting both. Uh Well |
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28:01 | I mean, mechanical properties, seismic , electrical properties, thermal properties, |
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28:10 | is a big factor. So, definition of rock physics and this picture |
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28:20 | meant to be facetious. Uh Rock is the systematic study of the relationship |
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28:27 | rock properties and geophysical characteristics, at . That's the way we're defining it |
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28:33 | this course. Now, the picture just showing that a lot of observations |
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28:38 | been made and the observer is wearing lab coat. So this is very |
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28:43 | . Right? So they're looking at systematic variation of the observation uh versus |
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28:51 | maybe the efficacy of a deodorant. , so let's look at the relationship |
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29:00 | the rock properties and the seismic So, the three main rock properties |
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29:07 | we're going to talk about, our ology ferocity and pour fluid content. |
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29:15 | are the most important rock properties for Now, but these rocks are under |
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29:26 | environmental conditions. So we have the and pressures, temperature. We also |
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29:34 | the orientation of the experiment because the you measure can be dependent on the |
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29:41 | . So, these are the environmental and we have the rock parameters and |
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29:47 | these to the velocities or the electrical or thermal conductivity or magnetic properties whatever |
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29:56 | are, The geophysical properties uh in seismic world we deal with velocities. |
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30:03 | deal with density and the attenuation. ? So, somehow these geophysical properties |
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30:11 | the rock are dependent on the environmental and the rock parameters. So the |
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30:21 | in the forward direction. This is we do in rock physics. We |
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30:26 | have velocities, density and maybe But that's a little great out because |
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30:32 | not going to pay a lot of to that in this class. We |
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30:35 | how the velocities and density are related these other factors. So, the |
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30:42 | controlling the geophysical properties are very important us in this class. And by |
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30:49 | way, there are thousands of pages the literature studying these relationships. |
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30:56 | the three dimensional distribution of the geophysical is what gives you the seismic response |
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31:04 | in the forward direction. Various types seismic modeling are used to predict the |
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31:11 | response from the three dimensional distribution of things. Now, the reverse process |
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31:20 | far more difficult and in many ways more intellectually challenging. And that is |
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31:31 | what rock physics tells us is going the rock properties and the environmental parameters |
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31:39 | the geophysical properties is an entirely non transformation. Going backwards from velocities and |
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31:49 | to the rock. The rock and properties is non unique. Furthermore, |
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31:58 | modeling tells us that going backwards from seismic response to the geophysical properties is |
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32:05 | unique. So we're doubly non So to go in the inverse direction |
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32:12 | much harder than going in the forward , but we have no choice but |
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32:17 | do that, we're gonna, we're make decisions. We're going to drill |
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32:20 | well or we're gonna build a building whatever it is we're going to do |
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32:24 | So we have to constrain the problem best we can and use uh you |
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32:31 | , seismic inversion or optimization, other along with our interpretive ability to go |
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32:40 | . So that that's very much a game. Okay, now, in |
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32:48 | , I didn't explicitly mention mention texture structural arrangement because I include that in |
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32:55 | term mythology. So lift ology includes composition and texture. So what is |
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33:03 | texture, the way the constituents are and under ferocity, I did not |
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33:13 | out permeability or pore structure. They both included as part of the pore |
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33:20 | . Now, permeability doesn't seem to a first order relationship to geophysical |
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33:28 | but there are second order relation or relations. So, um permeability tends |
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33:35 | be in a particular rock tends to highly correlated to porosity. But if |
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33:40 | look at the theoretical equations for the response, you don't see much contribution |
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33:47 | permeability. In fact, in what call a poor elastic medium at high |
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33:55 | , the fluid mobility does affect the velocities. So you've been lied to |
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34:01 | everybody else before this class, Because they haven't talked about the effect |
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34:07 | how permeability directly affects velocity, it exist, but we ignore it because |
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34:16 | a very small effect at the frequencies dealing with. Um now, poor |
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34:31 | , it turns out the shape of porous has a first order influence on |
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34:36 | velocities, and not all ferocity is same. So we're going to talk |
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34:41 | different types of ferocity and how they affect velocities differently. This means that |
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34:48 | can never have a universal relationship between and velocity, because porosity just tells |
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34:56 | the amount of pore space, it tell you anything about its shape. |
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35:07 | , so in rock physics, if look at the literature, most of |
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35:13 | literature is involved with deriving theoretical Uh So actually from the physics starting |
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35:23 | an arrangement of in grains or um predicting how the velocity is going |
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35:33 | change with composition or with arrangement We have a lot of theoretical equations |
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35:41 | I would say most of the published is based on the theoretical equations and |
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35:48 | of these are useful in a practical . For example, Woods equation tells |
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35:53 | the compressibility of a composite and this for gas bubbles and water, for |
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36:04 | , it also works for solid grains in a fluid. So the compressibility |
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36:11 | the effective medium, that's the mixture materials is just a volume weighted |
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36:19 | X, the X is of volume . So this, in this |
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36:25 | I'm writing it for, I'm writing equation for two constituents with different ma |
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36:32 | K one and K two and the of uh the bulk module Asus K |
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36:40 | called the compressibility that you can see the volume weighted compress abilities of the |
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36:49 | . That equation works. Another equation use, that works is the mass |
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36:55 | equation. Uh and that relates the of a material to the density of |
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37:01 | constituents. So those are exact theoretical that work and we use them By |
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37:09 | way, a very popular theoretical equation we've used a lot and I have |
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37:15 | a lot uh since its inception over years ago is gas men's equation. |
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37:22 | we'll look at Gaston's equations, that's theoretical equation that turns out it works |
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37:30 | too badly, but it turns out wrong. Leon Thompson just had a |
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37:37 | rejected from geophysics, which really irritates that they would dare reject his paper |
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37:45 | it's wrong. And uh he won paper, the 21 scG conference where |
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37:53 | presented it. I mean how it be rejected from geophysics is beyond |
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37:58 | But anyway, that's that's the side . Um So he may have mentioned |
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38:04 | in his course when you took it . So that's a very popular equation |
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38:08 | we're going to use. And in I think it may there may be |
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38:15 | errors with it because it's not too And we've used it for 70 |
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38:21 | but it's wrong, but really those equations are probably the only three theoretical |
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38:28 | that turn out to be useful for a practical way to predict velocities from |
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38:37 | rock parameters, which means that most the useful equations are empirical. And |
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38:46 | we'll talk about a number of empirical in this class, one of which |
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38:51 | the famous Wiley time average equation. And it says that the sonic transit |
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38:59 | , delta T is again a volume average of the transit times of the |
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39:05 | material and the fluid material. It looks like a theoretical equation. |
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39:11 | ? It looks a lot like Woods . Uh But in fact it's purely |
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39:21 | . Another advantage of the empirical equations their simple, so people are more |
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39:27 | to use them. Um Another group equations has arisen and uh these are |
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39:37 | of these have come out of stanford these are what Moscow calls heuristic |
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39:45 | And what does a heuristic? What heuristic mean? It means rule |
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39:51 | Right. So what is a rule equation? Well, uh one heuristic |
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39:57 | they put forth is called the critical model and that says the modular |
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40:03 | This is K plus four thirds mu K plus uh I mean lambda |
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40:09 | I mean K plus two lambda lambda two mu the plane wave module Asem |
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40:17 | related to the module Isse of the material in a porous medium. The |
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40:25 | of the solid material times. This in front, which is one minus |
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40:30 | Prasit. E divided by something they the critical porosity. That equation doesn't |
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40:40 | data and it's not derived from It's something that just somebody thought it |
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40:49 | a good idea to express that Right. Um So the question isn't |
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40:58 | it's right or wrong. The question is it useful? Right? All |
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41:06 | equations we're going to use our wrong some extent the theoretical equations? |
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41:10 | except for the mass balance equation. the theoretical equations all make assumptions which |
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41:14 | not be perfectly right. And of the empirical equations all have scattered around |
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41:20 | . They're a statistical fit. So not a matter of the equations being |
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41:27 | or wrong. It really comes down a matter of are they useful? |
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41:31 | the way to judge the critical porosity , even though it's not derived from |
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41:35 | and it's not derived by matching The question is is it a useful |
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41:41 | ? And will it help you advance thinking and will it help you make |
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41:47 | ? And uh the answer is in cases it can be useful in other |
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41:52 | . It may not be. one of the keys in all of |
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41:55 | equations is when do I use When is it applicable? That's something |
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42:01 | keep in mind. Especially for empirical . Emma, you know, what |
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42:10 | of conditions were they? Those empirical derived under. And if my conditions |
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42:16 | different from those uh all those equations going to be applicable. Alright, |
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42:26 | here's an example of the critical porosity . And so he's cross plotting the |
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42:33 | wave module ascent here, K plus thirds mu divided by the mineral modular |
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42:39 | just pull the mineral modulates over to other side. And I uh have |
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42:44 | my horizontal axis, the porosity divided the critical ferocity and the slope of |
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42:50 | one right, there is a negative in front would give you a trend |
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42:54 | this. Now, if the critical model were exactly right, you would |
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43:01 | right on the diagonal and you see lot of these data points do follow |
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43:06 | diagonal, but a number of them below the dialect. All right. |
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43:12 | the answer is sometimes the critical porosity works. Sometimes it doesn't. If |
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43:20 | happen to be operating in a situation it works, it may be uh |
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43:26 | may be other equations, which could more useful. Okay, now, |
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43:32 | question I have. Okay, so we have where the critical porosity model |
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43:37 | working. So you can see there points lined up along that line and |
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43:42 | lot a lot of these fused glass tend to follow the critical porosity |
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43:47 | but other rocks do also. Um , one thing I might ask |
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43:55 | what are the saturation conditions of these ? Right. So what is the |
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44:03 | fluid in these rocks? So for to be true, you see there's |
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44:11 | dependence on the saturating fluid here. , so um this particular model is |
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44:20 | for what saturation conditions and the answer the saturating fluid here is air. |
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44:28 | , so really the critical ferocity model written in this case is for the |
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44:37 | , absent liquids being in the rock the way they usually call this, |
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44:42 | dry rock, I don't like that because when you dry rock you change |
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44:48 | properties. So this is, this applicable, I would say to the |
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44:53 | frame that fluids are gonna be Okay, so you don't want to |
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45:01 | the critical porosity model in this in a brine saturated rock, you |
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45:06 | to use this to predict the frame , but then you need to put |
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45:11 | fluids in some other way. so needless to say, I'm a |
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45:19 | fan of the empirical equations and uh really struck me, I call it |
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45:25 | empirical gardeners. In uh 1956. Gregory and Gardner published the wildly time |
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45:36 | epic equation. Um just a remarkable in terms of the amount of number |
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45:45 | experiments they did really well worth Um In 1962, Gardner, Gardner |
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45:53 | Gregory came out with Gardner's equation by way, these are two different |
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45:59 | Larry Gardner and Jerry Gardner, um always thought Larry was the father, |
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46:05 | was the son. It turns out not relationship, which was a surprise |
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46:12 | me, I don't know why I this. But so jerry Gardner, |
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46:17 | professor here at the University of one of the most brilliant guys I've |
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46:22 | dealt with. He became he was only leading leading the field in rock |
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46:27 | , he then spent three years doing car design and then came back to |
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46:33 | and worked on imaging. And there Gardner D. M. O. |
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46:37 | example in imaging uh really an amazing . He um was also consistently under |
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46:47 | from by the FBI because he was war and things like that. Very |
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46:53 | interesting guy. Um By the way here when I was a graduate student |
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47:04 | U. T. My office was the basement and there was a guy |
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47:08 | had an office down, we're not in office who had a room down |
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47:11 | . I thought he was one of janitors turned out to be this guy |
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47:17 | and he was given a seminar and and uh G. T. And |
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47:24 | of my office mates when he presented wily equation. The office mate said |
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47:30 | my office mate Rose's hand and said know there are problems with that equation |
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47:35 | he didn't know who Gregory was we thought he was the janitor. |
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47:39 | are problems with that equation. And said yes I know. But anyway |
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47:45 | the uh wildly time average equation and gardener equation uh Some years later slumber |
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47:53 | out with a paper roemer. Hunt john Gardner also unrelated. Okay, |
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48:02 | the rain or hung gardener equation, don't know if you ever saw the |
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48:05 | being there, peter sellers, one my favorite movies of all time main |
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48:11 | , there was chauncey Gardner. But , different points. Okay, so |
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48:19 | this were during the semester, I'd giving you a homework assignment now, |
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48:23 | I won't do today um which is Wiley Gardner in nerve papers, the |
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48:31 | paper here again, it's on, on blackboard introducing the critical ferocity |
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48:38 | And I asked the question if you estimating ferocity from velocity, which approach |
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48:43 | you prefer to use when and Right. So rather than ask you |
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48:49 | do it, let's let's discuss it , this critical porosity, If you |
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48:57 | at this equation, this critical porosity is really suggesting that when the porosity |
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49:04 | equal to the critical porosity, this goes to zero. You see that |
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49:10 | goes to zero when ferocity equals critical , that goes to zero. So |
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49:16 | goes to zero. So what ferocity that it's the ferocity that is so |
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49:24 | that the rock is no longer a become disaggregated. Right? So the |
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49:32 | from stanford and actually this was our dr han here when he was a |
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49:37 | student at stanford suggested the idea that some critical ferocity, the rock loses |
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49:45 | and is no longer a rock, a sediment at that point. Um |
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49:51 | for sand stones, that's usually somewhere 40%. Um, a simple cubic |
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49:58 | of spheres as a prostitute of Right? So a very loose pack |
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50:05 | 40%. And the rock starts to cohesion. Um Now, suppose I'm |
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50:11 | to predict ferocity here. Um, , I'm using a point really out |
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50:23 | . I'm using this point out here predict the porosity in between. |
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50:30 | So, I'm using a value outside range of my data. If I'm |
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50:36 | with liquefied rocks, I may have is up to 30% 35% usually more |
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50:42 | the uh, around 20%. I'm using a value, which is |
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50:49 | hypothetical value that I don't measure. don't see it in the logs. |
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50:53 | guessing that the rock becomes, incoherent at 40% porosity. So, |
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50:59 | using an unmeasurable value outside the range my data to calibrate this curve. |
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51:09 | ? And so what you would do you would vary for these points, |
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51:12 | ? You would put the critical ferocity and put a line there. |
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51:17 | So, you you but you vary point, that is outside the range |
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51:21 | your data. So, there's always potential for non linearity. Who says |
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51:27 | gonna be linear all the way out that point. Right? Maybe it's |
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51:31 | curve linear relation like, maybe that instead of a critical porosity over |
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51:37 | Maybe it's actually a curve like Right? So you're assuming linearity. |
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51:44 | you're using a point outside of the of data to calibrate your curve. |
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51:51 | that's a practical difficulty in using the porosity. Okay, what about these |
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51:57 | relations? The gardener, famous gardeners , density relationship tends to work really |
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52:07 | for poorly lit defied rocks in the of Mexico. The widely time average |
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52:18 | works for a certain range of clean sand stones over limited porosity range. |
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52:28 | ? So wildly time average equation is for more liquefied rocks than the gardener |
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52:34 | . Raymond Gardner equation, as we'll , is for the most liquefied rocks |
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52:40 | get. So, as I there's no unique velocity porosity transform, |
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52:46 | depends on the poor shape, it on the degree of with indication, |
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52:49 | depends on the effective pressure. We'll about that concept later. So it |
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52:55 | depends on what fits your data in area. You're working. Alright, |
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53:04 | , because at a given for a ferocity, there could be a wide |
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53:12 | of velocities. It's useful for us talk about bounds, we want to |
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53:17 | bounds on what could that range of I. D, what could that |
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53:22 | of ferocity is B. And the possible bounds you could have are called |
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53:28 | Royce voice bounds. These bounds um derived oddly enough, assuming a random |
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53:42 | of crystals and doesn't consider the anisotropy the constituents. But with that |
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53:52 | if you think about as I distribute uh constituents, What would the stiffest |
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54:00 | be? And what would the most arrangement be? And the stiffest arrangement |
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54:07 | if if I'm stressing in the vertical and consider this as a piston. |
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54:13 | ? I've got a plate and I'm every component at the interface, the |
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54:18 | amount. Right? So it's a compression, right? Like a plane |
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54:24 | coming at the volume element. Um the most resistant arrangement I could come |
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54:33 | with is columns. This is why use columns. In architecture. You |
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54:37 | imagine. Uh The stiff material in here being one of the columns and |
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54:44 | white, the more compressible material being right between the columns. So for |
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54:50 | given amount of concrete or given amount stone having columns is the stiffest arrangement |
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54:58 | can come up with. Which is architects, the ancients started using |
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55:04 | They arrived at that conclusion empirically. that's been proven mathematically and that is |
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55:12 | the void bound. It's the stiffest . Uh So how do you calculate |
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55:20 | module asse of that stiff arrangement? , the voight Oculus is a weighted |
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55:28 | . So here we have a summation summing over the number of constituents. |
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55:33 | we can have many many constituents and here is the volume fraction. I |
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55:38 | to use little X. For volume fraction. Mafco uses f. So |
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55:44 | of constituent I and that's a So not 20% but 200.2. |
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55:51 | It's a volume weighted linear average of module I of the constituents. And |
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56:01 | this kind of arrangement the stiffest constituent gonna dominate. Also because it's a |
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56:15 | compression, every constituent is straining the amount. Right again? Imagine a |
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56:24 | here at the top and a plate the bottom. And you're squeezing in |
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56:29 | piston, the column, the volume the column and the volume of the |
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56:36 | softer material in between is going to to the same degree. So the |
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56:44 | , the amount of defamation in each is the same. That's called an |
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56:50 | a strain situation and that gives you void bound and that's a linear volume |
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56:57 | stump. On the other hand, I arrange things in layers here and |
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57:07 | a foam rubber between would uh plywood for example. Right. If I |
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57:15 | on this, what's gonna happen? boards themselves are not going to compress |
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57:20 | much, but the foam rubber in is going to compress a lot. |
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57:25 | ? So in this situation the strain different. The softer material strains more |
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57:32 | the harder material. So this is most compressible arrangement you could have because |
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57:40 | have no hard material supporting that soft . So the soft material absorbs most |
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57:46 | the compression. So this is called eye. So stress situation, the |
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57:52 | in each layer is the same but strain is different and this is a |
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57:58 | volume, a volume weighted sum. is called the Royce average. and |
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58:05 | , whereas in the void, the heart and heart of material or |
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58:10 | compressible material is absorbing most of the . In in the Royce case, |
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58:17 | the weak material which is going to the most. Right? So that |
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58:25 | is dominated by the smallest module Now, uh if you go to |
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58:35 | extreme case of the soft material being fluid, therefore you can see that |
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58:41 | resulting share modulates is going to go zero, which brings us to our |
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58:53 | laptop exercise. And so we're going use these simple equations and we're going |
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59:00 | make some rocks and we're gonna think a binary mixture of quartz and |
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59:10 | And we're gonna compare the void and bound only, we're gonna compute things |
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59:18 | few different ways. We're gonna compute void and Royce bound for the balk |
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59:27 | , and we're going to compute it the sheer modules and we're going to |
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59:30 | some conclusions there. And then we're to compare computing em from the Royce |
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59:38 | void K. And the Royce and . New. We're going to compute |
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59:42 | those ways, or we're going to them directly from these equations. Do |
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59:48 | see the difference? Um We could these equations for K instead of M |
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59:57 | we could get the void, bulk K. Or the void, sheer |
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60:03 | mu And then construct the effect of from those bounds, see what I'm |
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60:10 | what I'm saying here. Um or could do it directly, we could |
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60:15 | the plane wave ma July one and the bounds on the plane with plane |
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60:20 | module. So you understand the So we're going to assume we're going |
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60:29 | vary the fractions from 0-1. So if I have zero courts, |
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60:37 | I have 100% water. If I uh 0% water, I have 100% |
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60:44 | . And I'm going to use these july that I give you at the |
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60:50 | for the balkan share modulates of quartz and water. So you understand the |
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61:02 | . Okay, so I'm here to steer as you're going along. So |
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61:06 | ask for help as she needed. could stop recording while you're while we're |
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61:14 | on this. So good. Let's . Okay, so again, we're |
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61:23 | to the motivating introduction. So why we doing this? Well, this |
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61:29 | is to show that the seismic data sensitive to, for example, the |
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61:36 | . P. V. S ratio the rocks. I think in |
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61:40 | you probably talked about um the dependence seismic reflection data on impedance contrast, |
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61:48 | when we consider offset, we're also on Watson's ratio contrast. Maybe leon |
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61:54 | covered that or. Okay, so is just to show that kind of |
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62:00 | . So this is a a synthetic move out, corrected pre stack, |
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62:06 | . Right? So this is near here and we're increasing the offset. |
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62:12 | this is the case where we have sand in a shell and in our |
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62:18 | we have a V. P S ratio 1.83 In the shell of |
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62:24 | PBS ratio of 2.13. And this the event down here. And you |
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62:30 | a big amplitude increase with off step . It turns out that this is |
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62:36 | brine saturated sand. Okay, now going to add gas when we add |
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62:44 | , we're gonna lower the V. V. S ratio in the |
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62:47 | but also gas is going to get the shell and we're going to lower |
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62:51 | V P V. S ratio to the result is no amplitude increase with |
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62:58 | . So this is opposite to what expect with a B. O. |
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63:02 | expect a gas and to have an increase with offset. In this |
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63:08 | we're seeing that on a brian sand they expect uh flat response in the |
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63:14 | stand. Now, we're seeing it a gas sales. Right? So |
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63:19 | seismic response is very, very sensitive little changes in these be PBS |
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63:25 | And so that's a motivation where we to be able to predict what these |
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63:30 | BE PBS ratios are gonna be with fluids and in sands and shells. |
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63:37 | , so a variety of applications, going to use rock physics in reservoir |
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63:44 | and in time lapse seismic. for what I call reservoir geophysics, |
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63:50 | we're trying to characterize reservoirs in the flowing through the reservoirs. Also very |
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63:59 | for direct hydrocarbon detection and both conventional type department indicators like bright spots, |
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64:06 | spots and also A B. O and geotechnical drilling engineering support near surface |
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64:16 | and hazards and things like that. , so what I call reservoir geophysics |
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64:24 | I think dr Stewart has a little different definition. He tends to uh |
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64:31 | the reservoir around the borehole. And my definition, we don't even |
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64:36 | a borehole. It's just we're trying characterize the reservoir or the target. |
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64:41 | so this is the use of surface if you have it borehole geophysical data |
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64:47 | quantitatively determine with ology porosity pore, content, lateral extent of the reservoir |
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64:55 | of the reservoir, compartmentalization, pressures, stresses, and internal architecture |
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65:02 | the reservoir. Right. These are things we're trying to do. Rock |
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65:06 | is intimately involved in all of And this could be exploration before you've |
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65:11 | drilled a while or it could be after you have wells. So, |
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65:18 | one of the questions before we apply geophysical technique is we want to do |
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65:23 | feasibility study, we wanted to be . Is it worth the time the |
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65:28 | and the cost of doing the So, according to Wayne Pennington, |
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65:34 | is is now a Dean at michigan and by the way, was on |
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65:37 | dissertation committee at UT and worked many in the petroleum industry after that, |
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65:43 | was an earthquake seismologist when I knew , will the geophysical technique being |
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65:49 | Be able to differentiate between the competing models and will they be able to |
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65:55 | it sufficiently well to be worth the and the cost? And to answer |
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66:00 | question, we have to do rock and we have to understand the rock |
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66:05 | of the reservoir and the neighboring Mhm. An example of that is |
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66:14 | seismic data. So we have a cube seismic volume and we convert the |
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66:21 | wiggles to ferocity for example. So are ferocity logs here in black with |
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66:27 | porosity to the right and the reds the seismic predictions of high porosity and |
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66:36 | the blues are shells. Right. we've done seismic quantitative seismic analysis and |
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66:43 | the seismic wiggles, we've predicted the properties and here you see a nice |
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66:50 | sand, here's a nice porous And if you just looked at the |
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66:54 | logs, you would think there was flow continuity between the two. |
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66:59 | look at say you have these two here all the way on the |
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67:04 | Um And they look like beautiful sands correlate very well and you would guess |
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67:09 | flow continuity and maybe the performance in wells showed good flow continuity and then |
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67:14 | drill this well, you expect it be the same compartment. But look |
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67:18 | the seismic data in between the seismic in between is showing complexity. So |
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67:24 | strata graphic variability suggesting though even though logs look identical, we don't expect |
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67:31 | flow continuity between them. So part the value than in doing rock fist |
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67:40 | . And of course as direct hydrocarbon , here's an example from Nigeria is |
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67:46 | seismic wiggles plotted in a couple of ways. And if you plot it |
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67:50 | right, you could see very well gas oil contact and an oil water |
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67:57 | . So what's happening? How are rock properties changing? Obviously the impedance |
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68:03 | be changing with the hydrocarbons. So we predict the difference in reflectivity that |
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68:10 | would expect for gas for oil or brian? So that's an important component |
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68:16 | what we're trying to do. Also seismic attributes in this case A. |
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68:25 | . L. Attributes. This is fred Hiltermann did. Oh gosh, |
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68:29 | years ago. Um, he's got well log here showing clean sands and |
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68:36 | shells and green thin Shelley sands in and hydrocarbon filled sands in red. |
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68:45 | he's calibrating his seismic data to the uh to the well log. And |
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68:51 | finding that as you go up dip the well log here, we have |
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68:55 | beautiful amplitude anomaly up here. So we drill that well, rock physics |
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69:01 | gonna help tell us the probability that due to hydrocarbons. Same thing |
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69:06 | You have a sand, you're going dip and there's red. There's also |
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69:11 | attribute also is showing red here, looks like it's maybe assault uh, |
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69:20 | interface. You know, this looks a salt dome here. So it |
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69:24 | like we're on the flank of a dome. So red could mean hydrocarbons |
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69:29 | sand. It could also mean So differentiating all of that. Rock |
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69:35 | can help us do that. This the use of rock physics in geotechnical |
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69:42 | at one time, uh, in deepwater gulf of Mexico. When we |
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69:48 | first drilling there, there was the for example, shell set surface |
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69:54 | They had a discovery well, so going to develop and they knew they |
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69:58 | going to have to drill about eight wells. So the thing they did |
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70:04 | right away. They said the surface . So they drilled the shallow |
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70:09 | it was actually seven shallow boreholes. set the casing with the idea that |
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70:15 | they're ready, they'll come back and extend those down to the target. |
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70:20 | they drilled on that surface casing and they came back, the, |
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70:27 | the wells, they couldn't get down the bottom of those shallow wells, |
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70:33 | casing had sheared and deformed to the that those boreholes didn't exist anymore. |
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70:41 | ? Uh it's a good thing, didn't happen after they had drilled eight |
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70:45 | , it would have killed, you , hundreds of millions of dollars |
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70:49 | And this was called shallow water And what would happen is there would |
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70:54 | shallow sands that were encased in And so these sands had high pore |
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71:01 | because there wasn't any way for the to leak off. So you bury |
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71:05 | sands and they developed high fluid pressure you compress them. The water wants |
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71:11 | squeeze out. And if these were a slope they were in a very |
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71:18 | equilibrium, you put a well in , you disturb them and you get |
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71:24 | mudslide, submarine mudslide. So you huge volumes of sediment sliding. And |
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71:31 | was enough pressure on these wells to the surface case. So these were |
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71:37 | shallow water flows. And so then was the desire to detect these things |
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71:42 | you drill through them. These were hazard. Right? And so what |
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71:46 | noticed about these, these were had high pore pressures in sands. That |
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71:52 | you an extremely high B. V. S ratio. So, |
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71:55 | looked at the deviation in the inverted seismic data, the inverted V. |
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72:00 | . V. S ratio relative to the PBS ratio for normal rocks. |
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72:08 | what we found here was this anomaly on a slope and this was the |
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72:12 | location. And that was precisely where surface casing had been sheared off. |
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72:21 | , um, the answer is you situations like that abnormally high V. |
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72:26 | ratios on a slope. Okay, moving on question, what is the |
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72:36 | common mineral in the crust? You ? No, it was important to |
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72:52 | . Yes, feldspar which you remember our rocks and minerals class. |
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73:01 | Yeah. Most people will answer courts it was a trick question because I |
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73:05 | the crust. So you know in rocks the answer would be courts or |
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73:12 | you're in carbonates calcite. Right? in sedimentary rocks, quartz calcite and |
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73:18 | the other most dominant mineral in sedimentary ? Most common, most abundant sports |
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73:28 | and clay. We're gonna talk about by the way, where does clay |
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73:35 | from weathering of feldspar? So that's clay is so abundant. And really |
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73:44 | you look at the sedimentary rock what are most of your rocks |
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73:49 | Okay. So now in sedimentary why is courts dominant? And the |
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73:59 | is exactly it is most resistant to . So here we're looking at the |
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74:06 | the mineral grains and there are a of fell spars here at the bottom |
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74:10 | you see there are three orders of difference between courts and the most resistant |
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74:16 | sparks. Right, so feldspar, as weather? Much more rapidly than |
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74:25 | . Okay. Some terms that are to be important to us. Um |
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74:33 | is facility by the definite by the , what's the definition of a |
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74:46 | What is a shell french? okay. Think about shells. You |
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75:04 | and love a shell is the definition strict definition of a shell is a |
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75:14 | mud rock. What is a mud ? It's a rock composed primarily of |
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75:20 | and stilt sized particles. So fine now. So you could have a |
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75:28 | stone, you could have a silt , you could have a mud mud |
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75:33 | , a mud stone. What in to be called a shell? |
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75:38 | it has to be fissile. What means is a tendency to part along |
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75:46 | planes. So think about it. have a shell with, you |
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75:51 | betting horizontally and there's a tendency to along those bedding planes. What if |
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76:00 | talking about seismic waves propagating through that ? What does it mean about the |
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76:08 | properties as I propagate through that If I'm going perpendicular to this |
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76:16 | I'm gonna be closing that those Right? So if I'm perpendicular to |
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76:23 | facility, I'm more compressible. My are gonna be lower. If I'm |
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76:30 | to the facility, you're not as . Alright, so shells are, |
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76:35 | definition is going to be an icy . And I said, and I |
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76:41 | tropic, meaning the geophysical property depends direction. All right now, cleavage |
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76:51 | similar to facility, but there are different types of cleavage. There's mineral |
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76:56 | like in a book of Mika's and slate like cleavage like a blackboard in |
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77:04 | old days. Blackboards were made made slate because they would break along |
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77:10 | This cleavage, those are our different mineral cleavage depends on the orientation of |
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77:18 | mineral itself. Where a slate like . That direction has nothing to do |
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77:24 | betting it has to do with the or the direction of minimum stress at |
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77:31 | time of metamorphosis? Right. So a direct correlation to betting cleavage not |
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77:39 | to betting. There's another term called ation. It is banding that looks |
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77:50 | layering. But again, that is metamorphic reaction. And that depends again |
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77:58 | the principle and on the principal stresses the time of metamorphosis. Okay then |
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78:05 | layering and lamination. What is Well, different changing rocks but in |
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78:12 | restricted area you tend to get layers rocks. Right. What's the difference |
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78:19 | lamination is and layering? Lamination are fine layers on the order of a |
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78:27 | . Something like that. So as far as seismic data is |
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78:33 | will produce anisotropy. The low frequency wave will see that as anisotropy. |
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78:43 | a rock sample in the laboratory won't layering as anisotropy and may see it |
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78:50 | heterogeneity in the sample, but it see it as anisotropy whereas lamination will |
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78:59 | seen by everything as anisotropy by the data and in the laboratory. |
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79:10 | more definitions. What is porosity? , fraction fractional void space. So |
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79:19 | have the void volume divided by the fine. And is there a unique |
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79:25 | between porosity and geophysical properties unique. there one relationship? Now, we've |
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79:34 | looked at three or four different Right. So it's a non unique |
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79:39 | between porosity and geophysical properties. Because the porosity changes its shape depending |
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79:47 | the type of ferocity. Now, I held everything else constant, the |
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79:54 | , the pressure, temperature conditions, else constant. Could there be a |
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79:59 | relationship between ferocity and geophysical properties? if I help you know composition, |
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80:08 | mean the same exact rock. The difference and the porosity is all the |
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80:14 | shape. The only difference is the of it then theoretically can be a |
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80:21 | relationship, but generally everything else is at the same time with the |
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80:27 | So we don't have a unique So there's no one equation that's going |
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80:31 | work every place. Does all porosity seismic velocities in the same way. |
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80:41 | the answer is no. And we're to look at the effect of very |
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80:46 | equant pours versus the effect of very pores. Think about it around poor |
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80:55 | a shape like this. Sam compressing round Poor. If you don't structurally |
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81:02 | consider this one poor being compressed. , What does that look like structurally |
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81:08 | about architecture? What is that? an arch, arches are strong. |
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81:14 | why they're used in architecture. On the other hand, take a |
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81:19 | poor and say I'm normal to the long axis. Right? So I |
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81:25 | a flat poor like this, that very compressible. Alright, so different |
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81:32 | affects the velocities in different ways. , so let's talk about different types |
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81:40 | ferocity. Some of these are important their effect on velocity, some of |
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81:46 | are important in their effect on fluid . I mean their effect on velocity |
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81:52 | effective fluid flow. So what is ferocity? How would you define connected |
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82:06 | anyway? Yeah, it's that I mean yeah, it's like topological |
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82:16 | connected. If I had a scan the pore space, I could actually |
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82:22 | a connection between the two and I always be in poor space. That's |
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82:27 | we call connected porosity. Total porosity the total void space divided by the |
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82:34 | life. So what do I get I subtract connected porosity from total |
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82:42 | How much, how much isolated poor I have. And we call that |
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82:51 | disconnected porosity. Now, that's that's topological definition, right? There's a |
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82:59 | definition which is called effective porosity. is effective ferocity? Mhm. |
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83:20 | true. In what sense? You got it. True. In |
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83:27 | sense? I don't know. It's proximity that fluids will flow through. |
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83:46 | . So what is trapped ferocity? . Okay. You got the |
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83:53 | Now, by the way, effective is not exactly the same as connected |
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83:59 | ? Why can fluids flow through all porosity? No, why not? |
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84:11 | fluids have capillary forces. If a a connection between pores is too |
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84:21 | the fluids won't be able to flow . So in general, the effective |
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84:28 | is going to be slightly less than topological e connected porosity. And the |
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84:34 | ferocity will be slightly more than the disconnected porosity by the way. I'm |
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84:40 | to have these definitions. It'll be your notes. Okay what is buggy |
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84:53 | ? There was money. What's a ? What do you think? A |
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85:00 | is a bug is a roundish poor , it could be angular but in |
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85:08 | of the length of the axis of poor is relatively equal and you stay |
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85:18 | type of ferocity in often in One way to create a bug report |
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85:24 | to dissolve a crystal. You get buggy before. Similar is vesicular |
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85:32 | What is vesicular porosity? It's like bubbles that or liquids that uh |
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85:48 | They get boiled off and they leave a void so that's cool. And |
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85:54 | frequently get this in the salts or bas dissolution Prasit E. Is dissolution |
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86:05 | mineral grains, molded porosity. So porosity will inherit the shape of the |
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86:13 | that got dissolved. To set the order. Anyway molded porosity is dissolution |
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86:21 | shell material. So again molded ferocity have a shape that is controlled by |
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86:32 | shape of the original. Usually broken . Okay, inter granular ferocity ferocity |
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86:40 | grains into crystalline porosity porosity between How do you get ferocity between |
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86:49 | Well for example suppose I have calcite and then I have idle um a |
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86:56 | them. I bring some magnesium in hydrothermal fluids or something and or at |
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87:03 | very near surface the same thing can and I turn calcite which is |
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87:08 | A. C. 03 to C A M G M G. |
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87:13 | . I 206. Right? Dolomite much denser than calcite. So if |
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87:22 | making a more dense mineral I have I have conservation of mass. |
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87:28 | I make the crystals more dense. have to compensate that somehow by creating |
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87:33 | space elsewhere. So that produces into porosity, fracture porosity that's obvious it's |
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87:41 | by fractures, fracture porosity can tend be aligned which creates an iced atrophy |
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87:48 | it could be aligned usually in a sense. So it produces as a |
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87:54 | anisotropy also. Um And fractures tend be very compressible because they're playing and |
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88:02 | easy to repress micro porosity, very porosity. So micro porosity tends to |
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88:12 | be trapped fluids can't get out of . Not on a human timescale down |
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88:20 | is water associated with Claes now, on how it's measured, it could |
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88:27 | chemically bonded to the clay or it be physically trapped within the clay lattice |
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88:34 | it can be trapped in clay. porosity. So bound water could exist |
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88:40 | a number of different ways usually associated clays. Okay, and then there's |
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88:46 | porosity which is the initial ferocity at time of deposition and there's secondary porosity |
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88:53 | is process produced later. Bye. genesis or uh fractures or dissolution. |
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89:08 | all these different velocities will affect the in different ways. And one mistake |
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89:15 | often make is they take the ferocity the geologist or the uh the petro |
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89:24 | gives them and they don't ask what of ferocity is this? If you |
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89:31 | at a density log ferocity, what's density law gonna see? It shoots |
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89:36 | rays into the formation and it counts number of gamma where gamma rays that |
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89:41 | back and the more mass in the , the less come back. So |
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89:47 | type of porosity does the density locks of all of these? Well, |
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89:58 | , is that additional ferocity? You say a primary plus secondary. But |
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90:04 | what it sees is the total It's measuring, it's seeing the amount |
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90:09 | void space filled with liquid as opposed the amount seed filled with solid. |
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90:16 | the density logs responding to total But you see the sonic log may |
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90:21 | have a very clean relationship to total . If the porosity is changing its |
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90:27 | , a lot of buggy porosity may the same velocity as a little bit |
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90:32 | fracture porosity. For example. if the petro physicist is giving you |
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90:41 | ferocity or in the oil industry, petro physicist is going to be giving |
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90:46 | the effective ferocity. Okay, so is showing carbonates and it's showing pores |
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90:55 | different shapes and carbonates here. The are the are the are the open |
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91:02 | And so you see different sizes, should see different amounts of ferocity and |
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91:07 | see different, uh, poor So carbonates are particularly troublesome. Sand |
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91:16 | tend to more or less to have types of ferocity. It's a granular |
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91:22 | of ferocity, but carbonates very all the place. Okay, so I've |
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91:31 | the point that flat pores are much compressible than spherical pores. Okay, |
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91:39 | point of confusion that we often have the term clay. What does, |
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91:47 | does clay mean? Often that's what means. It could also mean a |
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91:55 | mineral because clay minerals aren't they break easily and they're often very fine. |
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92:02 | those are two different things. Clay and clay sized particles. Because clay |
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92:09 | particles are not all clay minerals. can get a lot of courts in |
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92:15 | clay sized particles. In fact, shells are primarily courts and some shells |
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92:20 | primarily calcite. The Eagle. For , a famous shale reservoir. |
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92:27 | it's mostly counseling. Okay, so term clay can refer to grain size |
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92:34 | mineralogy, The grain size. It's particle less than .002 mm or it's |
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92:42 | type of, or a Kamina clay , which is a type of silicate |
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92:47 | a sheet like structure. Okay, terms, what is the gas? |
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93:00 | has no shape. So what else has no gas. What's the difference |
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93:11 | the liquid and gas? I mean has no shape. They're both |
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93:19 | That's the definition roof look, the you're having trouble is because it's a |
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93:23 | of degree. So gas molecules are rapid motion. They move independently and |
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93:31 | have no orderly arrangement in the The molecules move more slowly or closer |
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93:38 | and have little ordinary orderly arrangement. actually have some, for example, |
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93:44 | surface tension. There's laminar flow, ? So there is some degree of |
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93:53 | . Both of these have zero So so they take the shape of |
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93:58 | container. And so they're both Was the definition of a solid? |
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94:11 | 45. Okay. It doesn't have have order because you could have an |
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94:17 | solid. So my definition of the is a material that resists a change |
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94:24 | shape. You try to change the of a fluid and it'll just square |
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94:28 | away, whereas a solid will fight . It'll try to resist the |
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94:34 | So solid has rigidity. Uh by way, there's another misconception, people |
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94:41 | call a liquid like water. They say it's in compressible, right? |
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94:51 | doesn't mean that it has a high modules. Right? What it means |
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94:57 | that if you try to compress it going to square it away. But |
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94:59 | you can find it, you can it quite easily relative to a |
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95:05 | Okay, now, orderly arrangement, have a crystalline solid. So in |
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95:13 | crystal and solid you have a crystal . On the other hand, you |
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95:19 | have an amorphous solid like glass or or in this case you have you |
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95:27 | have an orderly arrangement of molecules. . And we already defined rock and |
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95:33 | say it's a naturally occurring aggregate that a mixture of the above. |
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95:41 | another challenge we have in rock physics the different scales of measurement we're dealing |
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95:51 | in the laboratory. We measure velocities a little sample like that. In |
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95:58 | well logged, we measure over a of feet, Bsp maybe over tens |
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96:05 | feet or seismic data, more tens feet to hundreds of feet. So |
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96:11 | seeing, we're going to measure velocities different scales of measurement and we know |
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96:20 | to upscale velocities, we know how go if we had thousands, if |
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96:25 | had little high resolution velocities at every over thousands of feet, we would |
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96:31 | how to upscale that to a longer seen hundreds of feet. Right by |
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96:38 | way, in reservoir engineering, we necessarily know how to upscale. For |
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96:42 | , permeability doesn't upscale readily like that it depends on the arrangement of the |
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96:49 | . Whereas with, with seismic we know how to upscale. On |
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96:54 | other hand, we don't know how down scale. That's completely non |
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96:59 | So we don't know how to go a core scale of measurement to a |
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97:03 | . Now, often in our business gonna be comparing measurements at different |
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97:11 | So that's not always a straightforward thing do. Also, there's the fact |
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97:19 | the scale of measurement, the the dimensions of the piece of rock that |
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97:27 | investigating depend on the frequency we're right. Low frequencies average a lot |
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97:34 | rock, high frequencies average a smaller of rock, but we also have |
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97:41 | a porous material. The velocities also on frequency. So, we have |
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97:46 | factors working there. There's dispersion that in real rocks. Real real rocks |
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97:54 | not perfectly elastic. So we have , but we also have we're seeing |
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98:01 | pieces of rock. So that's gonna that's gonna plague us constantly. All |
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98:09 | , now, the other thing that on is we're measuring the velocity on |
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98:14 | little piece of rock, but there's in the earth. So that little |
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98:21 | of rock we're investigating may not be of what's around it. In |
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98:27 | there's definitely sample bias. I rocks that fall apart are less likely |
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98:32 | be measured in the laboratory than rocks will stay together. Okay, |
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98:39 | the seismic waves will see the heterogeneity , depending on their frequency. |
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98:45 | what do I mean by homogeneous homogeneous the property is the same, every |
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98:54 | at a given scale. So, example, if I'm measuring the velocity |
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98:58 | a sandstone here, it may be same. If I go to that |
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99:05 | over there, the velocity may be same. I would call that |
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99:09 | But if I went to a very scale and I'm measuring the velocity of |
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99:14 | sandstone, if I'm inside a quartz , that's going to be giving me |
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99:18 | different velocity than if I'm inside a . So when we see home, |
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99:23 | we say Iraq is homogeneous, we its macroscopic li homogeneous Heterogeneity means that |
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99:32 | property values at the scale that I'm things, the property varies as a |
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99:37 | of position. So, I'm in channel here, you're in a floodplain |
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99:42 | there and there's a bank between Right? So that's heterogeneity layering is |
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99:51 | type of heterogeneity. So it's a heterogeneity. Okay, so what I |
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99:57 | , microscopically homogeneous or heterogeneous. I at the scale of the measurement and |
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100:04 | it's homogeneous at one scale and maybe at a different scale. Now, |
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100:11 | icy tropic is different and I say means the property varies with direction. |
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100:17 | if I'm in a in a microscopically material, the property may also vary |
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100:25 | direction in a in a particular but on the average it may not |
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100:30 | with direction. So, we have distinguish heterogeneity from anisotropy. Anisotropy is |
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100:38 | to the an orderly structural arrangement that me preferred orientations that have particular |
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100:47 | Okay, and can an anti psychotropic be homogeneous, Yes, you could |
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100:57 | could have the same directional dependence every in which case it's homogeneous. |
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101:05 | so different scales of measurement as I saying, I can make measurements on |
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101:10 | plugs on longer pieces of core called or I have a well log |
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101:17 | I have a borehole geophysics scale, have a surface geophysics scale. |
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101:25 | so one thing I'm gonna want, gonna do frequently in this course is |
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101:30 | gonna show you observations and I'm going ask you to explain those observations. |
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101:36 | don't care if your explanation is right wrong. I just want you to |
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101:40 | through the process of coming up with hypothesis to explain the observations. If |
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101:48 | get in the habit of doing then you suddenly you'll find out that |
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101:51 | look at observations. Then you understand , why you're seeing what you're |
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101:56 | So no hypothesis is too crazy. talk about the hypothesis, but you |
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102:02 | as many points with me coming up a nuts hypothesis as you do and |
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102:07 | up the right hypothesis. So don't shy about offering hypothesis. Okay, |
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102:15 | here we have a case we're applauding or I should say velocity versus porosity |
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102:23 | as the porosity increases, the velocities and we're going to see that again |
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102:28 | again. But for lime stones we a similar relationship with ferocity, but |
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102:37 | the same ferocity, the lime stones to be faster than the sand |
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102:42 | Okay, so give me a hypothesis explain the difference in velocities between these |
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102:49 | stones and these sand stones just get home. Ah good. Right. |
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103:03 | that's the other thing you have to ask me questions because I haven't given |
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103:06 | all the information. So in this all these rocks are saturated with |
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103:15 | So saturation is not doing it, could have been another hypothesis. |
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103:28 | philosophy and so on. Lower than ones. So the mineral itself, |
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103:36 | calcite is faster than courts. And can I test test that hypothesis? |
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103:44 | , I'm going to extrapolate these trends to zero porosity. I extrapolate these |
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103:51 | back to zero porosity and at zero , I'm faster in limestone and |
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103:57 | So that supports your hypothesis, had else happened that could have potentially falsified |
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104:05 | hypothesis, but it supported your What students will often say is, |
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104:11 | , the pores and sandstone are flatter the pores and limestone, limestone has |
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104:17 | pours, sand stones have flat So how do I test that |
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104:23 | Well, just looking at this we have the same change in velocity |
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104:28 | ferocity which suggests that poor shape isn't explanation. And if it was strictly |
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104:35 | shaped extrapolating back to zero porosity wouldn't you that difference. So, in |
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104:41 | way those things tend to falsify the that it's a difference in poor shape |
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104:48 | this group of rocks. Okay, measurement, I'm measuring velocity versus |
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104:58 | So versus orientation. And think of as a polar orientation. So I |
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105:07 | a rock sample like this. I'm the velocities and I'm changing the direction |
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105:15 | I'm measuring the velocities in a polar . Okay, so this is p |
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105:22 | velocity. So we're not thinking, different polarization. We're seeing different directions |
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105:28 | the sample. Okay. And I'm this at different pressures, at low |
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105:35 | and at high pressure. So I'm both a change with azimuth change with |
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105:42 | and a change with pressure. I'm seeing anisotropy explain the anisotropy in |
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105:50 | . Nice. Alright, so I've a rock sample and measuring velocities, |
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105:56 | orientations through that rock sample. So why the anisotropy decreases. But why |
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106:12 | directional dependence? The is also called nice tropic Porsche. Spyder, |
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106:25 | tropic. Yeah, that explains the between the curves. Absolutely. |
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106:31 | Great hypothesis. In fact, that's hypothesis, I accept. But why |
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106:36 | dependence on orientation? What could you about these pores? Mhm. |
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106:49 | Right. So here we're going perpendicular the pores and we're closing them here |
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106:55 | going parallel to the pores. So have an aligned set of compressible |
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107:01 | What do you think these pores are a nice What type of ferocity to |
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107:11 | such a well defined orientation? Okay, so let's say the poor |
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107:22 | core is perpendicular to any affiliation. so the foley ation is the |
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107:29 | I I didn't tell you that. you wouldn't have known that. |
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107:32 | But let's say it's that in a and a a sample of a nice |
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107:41 | fracture. So what the answer is have a well aligned set of fractures |
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107:47 | this nice, which would have been along the direction of maximum stress, |
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107:54 | minimum stress would have been perpendicular. the fractures opened up that way and |
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108:00 | we're orientation is in the perpendicular, normal direction to the fractures were preferentially |
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108:08 | those fractures. Good, okay, versus porosity. And we have various |
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108:19 | these uh ferocity transforms that we saw the rain martin Gardner equation, the |
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108:26 | equation and Gardner's density equation. And have three sets of sand stones. |
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108:34 | you see these guys are all following rammer equation and these guys are not |
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108:41 | at the same ferocity we have different . So hypothesis to explain the |
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109:12 | It's the floating in the side of said yeah, that's the same. |
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109:19 | question. These are all brian I forgot to say that in the |
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109:40 | pressure. So I would say the , control the velocity and even. |
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109:54 | , okay, so that's a good and I'm gonna come back and say |
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110:00 | did thin section work and I saw these are all granular sand stones. |
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110:08 | have very similar poor shapes at least the eye. It's possible that there |
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110:29 | the mirror of their forest, they're court sand stones. Good. |
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110:35 | this this is exactly the way you're to be thinking, this is very |
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110:40 | . You're coming up with the correct . So the grains are the |
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110:47 | Their courts, there's no way that uh force. Uh I'm going to |
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111:06 | that the porosity is very similar to eye. I think that the whole |
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111:12 | , uh rain inside. Well, a sphere pack of some kind. |
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111:17 | , These are grains and a similar . one more factor. Good |
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112:11 | The temperature the same today, there's more factor years. Is it possible |
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112:50 | I could have a loose connection of grains? And is it possible that |
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112:57 | could have a very hard collection of grains and have those ferocity is be |
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113:03 | same. Can I take a loose of sand grains and can I make |
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113:10 | hard without changing the porosity very How would I do that could be |
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113:18 | contacts could be precious solution or a bit of the cement goes a long |
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113:26 | . So in this case these are lit ified. Either consolidation, that |
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113:34 | be grain interlocking. But these are . These ferocity czar very similar to |
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113:40 | processes, but these are cemented and are not cemented. So, so |
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113:48 | general rule here, the Raymond Gardner corresponds to your most well with ified |
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113:57 | . Where is the gardener equation applies poorly lit defied rocks? All |
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114:04 | So, if you're plotting up you could say something about the |
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114:08 | this is a well lit defied A strong rock at the same ferocity |
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114:13 | . If I'm following the gardener it could be a very would be |
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114:17 | very poorly liquefied rock. Okay, we have two very different behaviors we |
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114:33 | here kind of a linear drop in with ferocity. And then suddenly very |
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114:40 | dependence on the porosity. Can you this? And let me say there's |
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114:52 | misleading term on this plot. They appointed by. Exactly. So what's |
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115:16 | misleading term here? Mhm Sam stone Okay. That just means mostly coarse |
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115:27 | . That means liquefied. These things sediments. These aren't with ified. |
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115:32 | we'll see later that these are following equation pretty close to the equation for |
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115:38 | . In fact, that's the blue there. So these are not |
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115:43 | And this is the critical porosity where stop being a rock. That's like |
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115:49 | 40%. Oh, alrighty. All . Now we're going to get a |
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116:03 | bit complicated. We're gonna look at . Carbonates are always more challenging. |
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116:11 | are not as well behaved. And one thing, there are different ways |
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116:17 | measure porosity in a carbonate. So are different samples and in each |
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116:23 | the porosity is measured three different one is the plug ferocity. What |
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116:31 | does that mean? You actually take rock sample and you immerse it in |
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116:37 | and you see how much fluid goes the sample. Right? That's the |
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116:43 | ferocity. There's a then the scanning microscope ferocity. So that's taking a |
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116:51 | electron microscope image and then digitally doing analysis, figuring out the difference in |
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116:58 | image between poor and solid and measuring amount of porosity from the image scanning |
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117:07 | microscope. And then there's an old way of doing it. Which is |
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117:13 | plug ferocity, I'm sorry. Which the optical mineralogy or optical microscopy. |
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117:20 | you're looking at a microscope image an microscope and visually point counting and finding |
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117:28 | porosity. Or maybe they did it . They would do that recently. |
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117:33 | would be done via image analysis. , so they're getting different ferocity ease |
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117:44 | a general observation most of the Not always. But the plug ferocity |
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117:50 | to be greater than are almost equal the scanning electron microscope ferocity, which |
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117:56 | always greater than the optical ferocity. why why do these different methods give |
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118:04 | different velocities? Well, there could that could be the case if I |
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118:15 | looking at one sample. Right? here we're seeing systematic change in every |
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118:28 | . But you're right. Heterogeneity is an issue because you may not be |
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118:34 | the same exact piece of rock. here we're seeing a systematic difference. |
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118:39 | always happening this way. So we to explain, you know, if |
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118:43 | was just heterogeneity, you would say should be somewhat random unless, you |
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118:48 | , sometimes it should go one Sometimes it should go another way. |
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118:52 | we need a hypothesis to explain why seems to be systematic. You |
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119:02 | I just imagine like a microscope, can only get so much. And |
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119:07 | when you you're able to do larger , don't think about the area. |
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119:16 | about it this way, the Right? The plug in the scanning |
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119:24 | microscope are gonna see smaller ferocity than you can observe optical mineralogy. |
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119:32 | optical microscopy. So what their um here is there's a lot of very |
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119:40 | porosity in these particular rocks and maybe very small pores, Maybe there's something |
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119:49 | about them. Maybe they're not shaped the same as the very large pores |
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119:54 | we can see. And uh they very specific is there is a large |
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120:09 | of large fraction of course, space is smaller than six microns in |
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120:15 | They could see that with the scanning microscope. They couldn't see that with |
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120:20 | optical. Alright, now, let's at the velocities. If you cross |
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120:37 | the velocity versus ferocity, there's a of scatter and They have this less |
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120:47 | 50% more than 90%. I'm telling what those are. So offer an |
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120:57 | . You see that there's something different these rocks that say greater than |
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121:03 | And these rocks which say less than . Again, these are all fully |
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121:10 | saturated. Well remember the porosity is same, but you're right, it's |
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121:30 | fraction what it has to do with the fraction of the pore space. |
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121:34 | is very small. So here in rocks, most of the pores are |
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121:41 | small, whereas in in these rocks smaller percentage of the porosity is very |
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121:50 | . So the amount of small porosity you different velocity. Now, one |
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121:56 | about poor shape, the effect on of a particular poor shape is independent |
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122:04 | the size of that poor. It on the total amount of ferocity, |
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122:10 | a small, flat poor or a round, poor proportionate to the amount |
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122:16 | pores. So I could have an ferocity of small round pores, or |
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122:22 | round pores, as long as the pores. If it's an equal amount |
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122:25 | ferocity, the effect on velocity is same. So it shouldn't matter the |
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122:32 | of the pores if the pores were the same shape. But here, |
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122:37 | more small pores we have the lower velocity. That's suggesting that those small |
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122:43 | , there's something different about those small . And what we're gonna see is |
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122:47 | poor shape. Okay, so here's example of big groundfish pores and and |
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122:59 | higher porosity rock, but made of smaller pores. Now, if I |
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123:15 | the round pores, which, relatively , have a smaller dependence on ferocity |
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123:23 | the flat pours. And if I look at the relationship between velocity and |
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123:29 | ferocity, what I find is a there that's better defined than previously. |
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123:36 | ? When I cross plot against total , I have, I'm almost doubling |
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123:41 | velocity here, I have a wide , whereas here is a smaller |
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123:47 | Alright, so, it's a better curve. If I ignore the round |
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123:52 | pores and only cross plot against the pores. That suggests that the poor |
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124:00 | pores have a similar shape and in we'll talk about aspect ratios. But |
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124:07 | widely time average equation Uh tends to for pores that have an aspect ratio |
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124:15 | that .1, meaning the minor access the long axis. The long axis |
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124:20 | 10 times longer than the minor And uh so the wildly time average |
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124:27 | is this red curve here and so within the range of the variation of |
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124:34 | data except maybe at these very high is but at least down here, |
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124:39 | wily equation doesn't do too badly against micro ferocity. So this is suggesting |
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124:49 | t on the order of .1 Aspect . So pretty flat. Okay, |
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125:00 | now breaking out the points according to whether or not the samples are dominated |
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125:06 | macro or micro porosity. Um what suggesting is that um you know uh |
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125:17 | macro porosity gives you higher velocities, means that the velocities are less sensitive |
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125:23 | the macro porosity. And if you plot a velocity versus micro porosity you |
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125:32 | . And so this is the micro in the samples dominated by round force |
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125:38 | get a very including those dominated by porosity. You get a very well |
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125:44 | relationship. On the other hand this permeability. So this was velocity, |
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125:55 | ? This is permeability with permeability of the the samples dominated by macro porosity |
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126:04 | higher permeability than the samples dominated. . Micro porosity. And if you |
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126:14 | plot permeability against macro porosity, you a well defined relationship there. |
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126:22 | What's going on here? Fluids like flow through bigger pores? Mhm. |
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126:46 | be shy. Like I said, can't give a wrong answer. I |
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126:50 | want to see that you're thinking so yeah, you have bigger pipes for |
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126:56 | fluids to flow through. Alright, , I'll let you read these comments |
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127:05 | . Here's another example. These these in plastic rocks. And if you |
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127:13 | plot density, 1st 2 sonic transfer , this is the regression fit. |
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127:22 | not I would not say that's a fit. Right. You tend to |
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127:27 | away from that regression for and it of cuts it in half. |
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127:35 | puts an answer down the middle. very satisfying. Why why would classic |
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127:43 | have such a difference between velocity and or a sonic transit time, which |
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127:51 | one over velocity versus density. Why big spread. Mm. Oh, |
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128:04 | the way, the here is Right. So you find that there |
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128:09 | rocks that at a given depth have similar velocity velocity, they're over a |
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128:18 | range of velocities, but a wide of densities. Do you kind of |
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128:25 | you kind of see a trend like, ignore all these points. |
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128:31 | . Do you see a distinct trend ? Yes. Yeah, deeper is |
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128:39 | here. So shallow to deep. getting denser and denser. Right? |
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128:48 | velocity is increasing. Yeah, that's effect of confining pressure boat. The |
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128:56 | spread of data seems very well I could fit a trend there |
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129:04 | What could you say about the porosity for this trend. Look at the |
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129:09 | in density here, it's not that . And if courts and clay have |
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129:15 | density of about 2.65, you could these are probably shells you buy that |
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129:24 | are low porosity rocks that have a depth dependence. On the other |
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129:29 | um you have these rocks that have wide range of densities and a relatively |
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129:37 | range of velocities. So density is much more than velocity. What's happening |
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129:44 | those rocks? I'm going to argue we were filling pores with clay. |
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129:52 | these are your very clean sand stones these are dirty sand stones as you |
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129:59 | clay to the poor space. The doesn't change very much, but the |
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130:05 | gets more and more. It's it's well known. And and when we |
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130:11 | about Gardner's equated paper, I'll show that shells at the same velocity as |
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130:17 | stones tend to be more dense. , so there's your shell trend. |
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130:25 | going to fit a line to I'm going to call that the shale |
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130:28 | . And I'm gonna say that this here separate your clean shells from your |
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130:37 | and there's a sand line here, would argue. And that everywhere in |
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130:42 | is varying Shelley nous of that So that's a clay volume variation in |
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130:50 | sand. See how what we're doing we're explaining the observation. We're forming |
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131:07 | . And so the act of forming to explain measurements is what rock physics |
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131:16 | all about. So give me a for those points. Oops, What's |
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132:02 | about those points? How are they from the other points? Yeah. |
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132:13 | they're shallow, you can see from color but their sonic transit times are |
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132:18 | low. So they're very fast. these are shallow, very fast |
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132:25 | Um The wide range of density Not so but that's a hypothesis. |
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132:37 | good. What else could it Something with a much higher velocity at |
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132:41 | much shallower depth and a wide range densities throw out something could have been |
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133:08 | . I'm gonna argue. No. of the right wide range of |
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133:11 | But what else could do that? else is high velocity relative to |
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133:18 | High velocity carbonate. Right. So could be happening here? Suppose we |
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133:26 | a buggy limestone? The remember we saw that the velocity is not very |
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133:32 | react very strongly to the bugs, the density would the density would vary |
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133:38 | great deal. So maybe there's a buggy carbonate. Maybe these are just |
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133:45 | values in the log. But we try. We That's the last resort |
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133:50 | you're gonna first you try to explain geologically. If it's absolutely if you |
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133:55 | explain them geologically, then you can to experimental error. But that's too |
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134:00 | a cop out. Right. Anything doesn't fit your preconceived nourish notions, |
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134:05 | are automatically say experimental error. you have to verify that if it's |
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134:10 | error, show me the logs and me why you think that those log |
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134:14 | are wrong. Okay, now we're uh dry and brine, saturated velocities |
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134:27 | these are for mixtures of clays. got two different types of plays kale |
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134:32 | I and smack type. We'll look at how these things are different. |
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134:40 | we're varying the stress. And they're talking effective stress here. What they |
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134:48 | mean is differential stress. The difference the vertical applied uni axial pressure and |
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134:54 | poor pressure. And they're calling that effective stress. And so these are |
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135:02 | observations. So, explain the observations what's happening. That's different. |
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135:18 | okay, a few things velocities are with pressure and p wave velocity increases |
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135:29 | you have brine as as opposed to . Right? So you're seeing an |
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135:36 | in the velocity as well. So this because the travel Well, fluids |
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135:54 | a resistance to compression also, and the fluids can't escape, they could |
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136:00 | you resist the compression. And if in a loose conglomerate of clay's the |
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136:05 | of the fluids could be very significant I'm in a buggy limestone. I |
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136:09 | care too much what's inside the But if I'm in a loose aggregate |
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136:13 | clay's the flu is going to be a lot of work to resist that |
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136:18 | . So that causes the p wave to go up. You notice the |
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136:22 | wave velocity goes down? Why would happen? Why would share wave velocity |
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136:29 | down when I add water? Right. So the equation for share |
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136:44 | velocity, square root of rigidity over . The rigidity is already low. |
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136:51 | a loose aggregate of clays and any . It's not gonna change the |
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136:57 | but it's going to increase the density lot. I'm gonna skip this |
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137:09 | Okay, so we're going to look different approaches to explaining the geophysical |
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137:18 | One approach is to look at the fractions of the components I call this |
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137:27 | modeling. So I'm mixing the components . I care about the mineral |
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137:33 | the porosity and the fluid saturation. , in a way, what we |
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137:39 | doing with the velocity porosity transforms Wiley , uh Ray martin Gardner, we're |
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137:47 | at the variation of ferocity. So were actually looking at the variation with |
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137:53 | essentially the composition. Um We could more so that's kind of a first |
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138:01 | kind of effect. We also can the internal rock geometry, the structural |
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138:10 | of the solids, which results in texture, the grain size and shape |
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138:21 | amount of surface area of those grains and how they're arranged, how they're |
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138:27 | , We could have a loose we could have a very dense |
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138:31 | then we can look at what's happening the interfaces between the grains or the |
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138:37 | . Are the grains cemented? Are interlocking? Have they, have they |
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138:42 | into each other? Uh And if are fluids, there definitely there's definitely |
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138:49 | going on at the interface between the and fluids. And then of course |
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138:57 | are the environmental conditions. This is Shawn's book, he calls them thermodynamic |
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139:02 | , the pressure, the state of and the temperatures. Okay, so |
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139:11 | ways to mathematically deal with these different . We can view, we could |
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139:22 | most rocks a heterogeneous genius in other , they're not made of one solid |
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139:27 | , they have some mixture of solids they have poor space. So we |
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139:33 | call this a compositionally heterogeneous material which complicated, gets really complicated. I |
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139:41 | got a graduate student working on this right now and um in fact we've |
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139:50 | working with leon Thompson on dealing with . But um to first order we |
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139:58 | this compositionally heterogeneous material and we think it as being homo compositionally homogeneous with |
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140:08 | mineral property that is some kind of of those others. So we think |
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140:15 | some kind of average solid material. Okay now we could then, given |
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140:25 | degree of simplification there are other ways can do it, for example, |
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140:31 | can think about handling the different components being different parallel sheets and in fact |
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140:40 | do that with the void and Royce and implicitly the wily equation is doing |
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140:46 | also. Um We can also think different types of geometries, like we |
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140:55 | take regular arrangements of spheres and we calculate the properties. I've got a |
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141:02 | now who's three D printing rocks, we know the arrangement. So we |
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141:09 | the arrangement using physics, we could what the velocities are supposed to be |
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141:15 | we're comparing that to laboratory measurements, ? What engineers do they like to |
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141:21 | of Iraq as being composed of tubes that they can consider fluid flow through |
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141:27 | rock very common. And there are of doing this. Uh we have |
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141:35 | is called inclusion modeling. You take background matrix to some solid material and |
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141:42 | put pores of different shapes in it you put other minerals of different shapes |
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141:47 | the rock. And so the most of these are like Okano Budiansky and |
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141:53 | toxins modeling a lot of different ways do this. So we're gonna, |
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141:59 | gonna look at a little bit of of these different ways of characterizing rocks |
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142:04 | the way, all of these, of these mathematical abstractions are correct. |
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142:09 | all wrong because real rocks are more than any of these. The question |
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142:17 | are they right or wrong, is useful. So these different ways of |
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142:24 | at rocks could give us insights. could help us conceptually understand what's what's |
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142:30 | and maybe help us understand the systematics seen. But they're terrible for predictive |
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142:38 | and a mistake people make is to these highly idealized mathematical models and use |
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142:44 | to make predictions. Those predictions are going to be wrong unless you're really |
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142:50 | . Right? But they're useful. . We already looked at these. |
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142:59 | , well that is our first Bye. I think that this since |
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143:05 | is our first day, I think call it quits here. So, |
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143:11 | questions. Any questions. The more , the longer we stay. So |
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143:19 | , so tomorrow eight o'clock we'll see virtually. We could talk about that |
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143:37 | morning. I mean we can we eat since it's virtual. We could |
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143:42 | eat through lunch and break even earlier doing away with the lunch break. |
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143:49 | that's up to you guys how you to do it. We'll see how |
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143:53 | feel tomorrow. I could always eat you're doing an exercise so I don't |
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