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What makes some rocks porous?

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12y ago
Updated: 8/20/2019

The sediments (grain) have some definite shape and volume. Considering a spherical sediment the packing of the sediments around a grain can be octahedral leaving spaces in between. These are the pore spaces which makes the rocks porous.

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