Fractal Characteristics of Pore Structure of Longmaxi Shales with Different Burial Depths in Southern Sichuan and Its Geological Significance

Round 1

Reviewer 1 Report

Comments and Suggestions for Authors

Comments are in the document

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Comments on the Quality of English Language

Quality of English must be improved

Author Response

Dear Editor and Reviewer 1,

Thank you very much for your careful review and valuable comments on our paper titled “Fractal characteristics of pore structure of Longmaxi shales with different burial depths in southern Sichuan and its geological significance”. We appreciate the time and effort you have spent in providing feedback to improve our work.

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Reviewer 2 Report

Comments and Suggestions for Authors

In the manuscript, the author represents: “Fractal characteristics of pore structure of Longmaxi shales with different burial depths in southern Sichuan and its geological significance”. The author needs to change and explain some issues:

1.    Why is the axis in Figure 1B changed compared to 1A? (In Figure 1A, the “sample ID” is the horizontal axis but in Figure 1B is the vertical axis)

2.    How can the author know exactly whether the pores in Figure 2 are of organic or inorganic material? Did the author confirm this issue using any measurement method?

3.    Why does the author not show the pore size value in Table 1?

4.    From comparing Figures 2 and 3, the pore size and distribution are not math. What can the author explain about this?

Author Response

Dear Editor and Reviewer 2,

Thank you very much for your careful review and valuable comments on our paper titled “Fractal characteristics of pore structure of Longmaxi shales with different burial depths in southern Sichuan and its geological significance”. We appreciate the time and effort you have spent in providing feedback to improve our work.

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Round 2

Reviewer 1 Report

Comments and Suggestions for Authors

Authors corrected all the points. I recommend acceptance for this research work.

Reviewer 2 Report

Comments and Suggestions for Authors

None