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Record 1 1978-01-12

English

Subject field(s)
  • Petrography
OBS

compact: A surface-texture term applied to rocks that break along smooth to conchoidal faces and generally have little or no porosity. The term was advocated in a classification of carbonate reservoir rocks by Archie (1952, p. 280) and currently has rather wide usage in this sense. "Compact" is useful as a gross indication of low matrix porosity in a finely textured rock, and seems preferable to the somewhat synonymous term "dense", as it avoids connotations of mass.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Pétrographie
OBS

Grains ou agrégats serrés les uns contre les autres ou soudés les uns aux autres ou engrainés les uns dans les autres [...]

Spanish

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