| Description |
1 online resource (560 pages) |
| 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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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Chapter 4 A pore-scale investigation of the dynamic response of saturated porous media to transient stresses Introduction ; Background ; Methods ; Results ; Discussion ; Conclusions ; Acknowledgments |
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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 |
| Summary |
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. 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. The practical importance of permeability - and the potential for large, dynamic changes in permeability - is highlighted by ongoing issues associated with hydraulic fracturing for hydrocarbon production ("fracking"), enhanced geothermal systems, and geologic carbon sequestration. Although there are thousands of research papers on crustal permeability, this is the first book-length treatment. This book bridges the historical dichotomy between the hydrogeologic perspective of permeability as a static material property and the perspective of other Earth scientists who have long recognized permeability as a dynamic parameter that changes in response to tectonism, fluid production, and geochemical reactions |
| Notes |
Acknowledgments |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
Hydrogeology.
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Hydrogeology
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| SUBJECT |
Earth (Planet) -- Crust -- Permeability
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| Subject |
Earth (Planet)
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Ingebritsen, Steve
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| ISBN |
9781119166580 |
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1119166586 |
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