Crustal Permeability [Hardcover]

Permeability is the primary control on fluid flow in the Earths 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.?

List of contributors, xi

About the companion websites, xvii

1 Introduction, 1
Tom Gleeson and Steven Ingebritsen

2 DigitalCrust a 4D data system of material properties for transforming research on crustal fluid flow, 6
Ying Fan, Stephen Richard, R. Sky Bristol, Shanan E. Peters, Steven E. Ingebritsen, Nils Moosdorf, Aaron Packman, Tom Gleeson, I. Zaslavsky, S. Peckham, Lawrence Murdoch, Michael Fienen, Michael Cardiff, David Tarboton, Norman Jones, Richard Hooper, Jennifer Arrigo, D. Gochis, J. Olson and David Wolock

Part I: The physics of permeability, 13

3 The physics of permeability, 15
Tom Gleeson and Steven E. Ingebritsen

4 A pore-scale investigation of the dynamic response of saturated porous media to transient stresses, 16
Christian Huberl#n