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Physical principles of sedimentary basin analysis /

"This book is based on lecture notes about the physical processes that govern sedimentary basins. The notes were the basis for a one-semester seminar named "Heat and fluid flow in sedimentary basins" offered by UNIK, an affiliate of the University of Oslo at Kjeller. As the title sugg...

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Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Wangen, Magnus
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Cambridge, UK ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2010.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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  • Cover; Half-title; Title; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; Preface; Acknowledgments; 1 Preliminaries; 2 Properties of porous media; 3 Linear elasticity and continuum mechanics; 4 Compressibility of rocks and sediments; 5 Burial histories; 6 Heat flow; 7 Subsidence; 8 Rheology: fracture and flow; 9 Flexure of the lithosphere; 10 Gravity and gravity anomalies; 11 Quartz cementation of sandstones; 12 Overpressure and compaction: exact solutions; 13 Fluid flow: basic equations; 14 Fluid flow: basic equations; 15 Wells.
  • Appendix: Fourier series, the discrete Fourier transform and the fast Fourier transformReferences; Index.