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Principles and Applications of Well Logging

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Well logging, as a terminology, is originated from France in 1927. Its primary meaning is electrical coring, which is a continuous record of characteristics of rock formations traversed by a measurement device in the well bore.

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Liu, H. (2017). Introduction. In: Principles and Applications of Well Logging. Springer Geophysics. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-662-54977-3_1

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