TY - JOUR A1 - Zhang, Zeyu A1 - Weller, Andreas A1 - Kruschwitz, Sabine T1 - Pore radius distribution and fractal dimension derived from spectral induced polarisation JF - Near Surface Geophysics N2 - The pore size distribution provides a suitable description of the pore space geometry that can be used to investigate the fractal nature of the pore space or to determine a fractal dimension. Fractal dimension describes the size of geometric objects as a function of resolution. It can be integrated into models of permeability prediction. We investigated the fractal dimension of the pore volume of 11 Eocene sandstone samples from China. This study describes an approach to use spectral induced polarisation spectra to estimate the pore size distribution and to determine the fractal dimension of the pore volume. Additionally, the fractal dimension was derived from data of the capillary pressure curves from mercury intrusion and the transversal relaxation time distribution of nuclear magnetic resonance. For samples with an effective pore radius larger than 1 μm, good agreement exists between the values of fractal dimension derived from the three different methods, which implies the identification of similar pore structures. Spectral induced polarisation can be a non-invasive laboratory technique for the estimation of the pore size distribution, but the application of the methodology for field measurements remains a challenging problem considering the limited frequency range. KW - Pore radius distribution KW - Fractal dimension KW - Spectral induced polarization PY - 2017 DO - https://doi.org/10.3997/1873-0604.2017035 SN - 1569-4445 VL - 15 IS - 6 SP - 625 EP - 632 PB - Wiley AN - OPUS4-43250 LA - eng AD - Bundesanstalt fuer Materialforschung und -pruefung (BAM), Berlin, Germany ER -