Improving Pore Network Imaging and Characterization of Microporous Carbonate Rocks Using Multi-Scale Imaging Techniques

Categories: Current Research

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Aim
  • characterize the pore space in micritic carbonates with the epoxy pore casts
Scope
  • Impregnate carbonate rock samples with fluorescent epoxy
  • Carefully fill the heterogeneous pore space avoiding artifacts
  • Produce 3D models of the pore casts using confocal microscopy (CLSM)
Significance
  • Increase the investigation depth of confocal imaging 20-fold, to 200 mikro-meter
  • Image pores at multiple scales through cross-correlation between SEM and CLSM
Ahmed ​Hassan, Viswasanthi Chandra, Maxim Yutkin, ​Tadeusz W. Patzek