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Archie's Law

Term · Environment · MLC-T-ENV-002043

An empirical relationship linking formation resistivity (rt), formation water resistivity (rw) and porosity. The form of the relationship is rt = a rw -m where a and m are experimentally determined constants.

Table 1. Record
IdentifierMLC-T-ENV-002043
FieldEnvironment
SubjectScience and research
ReferencesEnvironmental Geophysics Glossary
Record as JSON 
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  "term": "Archie's Law",
  "field": "Environment",
  "definition": "An empirical relationship linking formation resistivity (rt), formation water resistivity (rw) and porosity. The form of the relationship is rt = a rw -m where a and m are experimentally determined constants.",
  "subject": "Science and research",
  "references": [
    "Environmental Geophysics Glossary"
  ],
  "url": "https://mlchart.com/terminology/environment/archie-s-law/"
}

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