TY - JOUR A1 - Kruschwitz, Sabine A1 - Prinz, Carsten A1 - Zimathies, Annett T1 - Study into the correlation of dominant pore throat size and SIP T2 - Journal of Applied Geophysics N2 - There is currently a debate within the SIP community about the characteristic textural length scale controlling relaxation time of consolidated porousmedia.One idea is that the relaxation time is dominated by the pore throat size distribution or more specifically the modal pore throat size as determined in mercury intrusion capillary pressure tests. Recently new studies on inverting pore size distributions from SIP data were published implying that the relaxation mechanisms and controlling length scale are well understood. In contrast new analytical model studies based on the Marshall-Madden membrane polarization theory suggested that two relaxation processes might compete: the one along the short narrow pore (the throat) with one across the wider pore in case the narrow pores become relatively long. This paper presents a first systematically focused study into the relationship of pore throat sizes and SIP relaxation times. The generality of predicted trends is investigated across a wide range of materials differing considerably in chemical composition, specific surface and pore space characteristics. Three different groups of relaxation behaviors can be clearly distinguished. The different behaviors are related to clay content and type, carbonate content, size of the grains and the wide pores in the samples. PB - Elsevier B.V. CY - Amsterdam KW - Textural controls KW - Spectral induced polarization KW - Relaxation time KW - Pore throat size KW - Consolidated materials KW - Membrane polarization PY - 2016 UR - https://opus4.kobv.de/opus4-bam/frontdoor/index/index/docId/40346 AN - OPUS4-40346 VL - 135 SP - 375 EP - 386 AD - Bundesanstalt fuer Materialforschung und -pruefung (BAM), Berlin, Germany