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Digital rock physics offers shale rock insight at molecular level
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Want to get so close to the Marcellus Shale that you can see its pores? You need digital rock physics.
This type of analysis uses medical scanners, such as CT scans and X-rays, to produce images of rocks at the molecular level, which allows geologists to study where in the rock oil and gas accumulates and enables them to calculate features such as permeability.
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