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Crustal Permeability.

Permeability is the primary control on fluid flow in the Earth s crust and is key to a surprisingly wide range of geological processes, because it controls the advection of heat and solutes and the generation of anomalous pore pressures.

Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Gleeson, Tom
Other Authors: Ingebritsen, Steve
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Newark : Wiley, 2016.
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Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Cover ; Title Page ; Copyright ; Dedication ; Contents ; List of contributors ; About the companion websites ; Chapter 1 Introduction ; Motivation and background ; Nomenclature: porosity, permeability, hydraulic conductivity, and relative permeability.
  • Static versus dynamic permeability Contents of this book ; Data structures to integrate and extend existing knowledge ; Acknowledgments ; Chapter 2 DigitalCrust
  • a 4D data system of material properties for transforming research on crustal fluid flow ; Motivation.
  • Data integration to transform science The DigitalCrust vision ; An action plan ; Concluding remarks ; Acknowledgments ; Part I The physics of permeability ; Chapter 3 The physics of permeability.
  • Chapter 4 A pore-scale investigation of the dynamic response of saturated porous media to transient stresses Introduction ; Background ; Methods ; Results ; Discussion ; Conclusions ; Acknowledgments.
  • Chapter 5 Flow of concentrated suspensions through fractures: small variations in solid concentration cause significant in-plane velocity variations Introduction ; Overview of experiments ; Image analysis ; Experimental results ; Computational simulations ; Concluding remarks.