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Undercompacted
(overpressured)
Enlarged view of
shale capillary

- --------------- - - - - - - - - ------- shales. Arrows show direction of flow and velocity fluids in well-compacted and undercompacted (overpressured) profile in an enlarged view of a capillary in a vertical direction. S = salinity. (Modified after Rieke and Chilingarian, 1974, f

Well compacted ------------------_ ------------------- - - - -------------- ------- Shale ------- ------------------- ------------------- ------------------- 10-34. Relative salinities of interstitial

S3 Fig. 1994, fig. 5-26, p. 143.)