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QUANTITATIVE estimates of rock permeability are of importance in any branch of science or engineering where flow of fluids through rocks is considered. Although there is a large amount of data available for rocks with relatively high permeabilities (exceeding 1 mdarcy), very few data are available for rocks such as shales, cherts, dense carbonates and evaporites which may have permeabilities of less than 1 mdarcy. Permeability measurements on Precambrian cherts help to interpret the results of organic geochemical studies made on these ancient rocks.
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SANYAL, S., KVENVOLDEN, K. & MARSDEN, S. Permeabilities of Precambrian Onverwacht Cherts and Other Low Permeability Rocks. Nature 232, 325–327 (1971). https://doi.org/10.1038/232325a0
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