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Morrow & Byerlee 1988
Morrow, C. and Byerlee, J. (1988). Permeability of rock samples from Cajon Pass, California. Geophysical Research Letters 15: doi: 10.1029/88GL00206. issn: 0094-8276.

Room temperature, steady-state flow measurements of permeability were conducted on 15 unfractured core samples collected at depths between 270 and 2100 m in the Cajon Pass drillhole. Confining and pore pressures were set to the lithostat and hydrostat for each depth. The first 500 m encountered in the drill hole is composed of sandstones with typically high permeabilities of around 10-17 m2. The crystalline rocks between 500 and 2100 m show a systematic decrease in permeability with depth from 10-19 to less than 10-21 m2. These values are particularly low relative to the applied effective stresses of only 10--30 MPa, and may be a result of the extensive crack healing that was observed in most samples.

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Physical Properties of Rocks, Permeability and porosity, Information Related to Geographic Region, North America, Exploration Geophysics, Downhole methods
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Geophysical Research Letters
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