Crustal Permeability

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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.

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Full title :Crustal Permeability.

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Publication Date:2016.

Publication Statements

Publisher(s):Wiley
Place of Publication:Newark
Language:eng
Publication Date:2016.

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Description:1 online resource (560 pages)

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ISBN:9781119166580, 1119166586
oclc:ocn961444007
LC Classification:QE511
Dewey Decimal:551.1/4

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.