Crustal permeability / edited by Tom Gleeson, Steven Ingebritsen.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Gleeson, Tom, editor.

Ingebritsen, Steven, editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Hydrogeology.

Earth (Planet)--Crust--Permeability.

Earth (Planet).

Physical Description:

1 online resource (560 pages) : illustrations (some color)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

West Sussex, England : John Wiley & Sons Ltd, 2017.

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. 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.

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

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

Chapter 5 Flow of concentrated suspensions through fractures: small variations in solid concentration cause significant in-plane velocity variations

Overview of experiments

Image analysis

Experimental results

Computational simulations

Supporting information

Chapter 6 Normal stress-induced permeability hysteresis of a fracture in a granite cylinder

Theoretical aspects

Experimental procedures

Experimental procedures and results

Acknowledgements

Chapter 7 Linking microearthquakes to fracture permeability evolution

Channeling flows through heterogeneous fractures at laboratory scale

Channeling flows through heterogeneous fractures beyond laboratory scale

Acknowledgments.

Chapter 8 Fractured rock stress-permeability relationships from in situ data and effects of temperature and chemical-mechanical couplings

Fractured rock stress-permeability relation and sample size effect

In situ block and ultra-large core experiments

Borehole injection tests

Model calibration against excavation-induced permeability changes

Depth-dependent permeability of shallow bedrock

Model calibration against the Yucca Mountain drift scale test

Thermal and chemically mediated mechanical changes

Application to geoengineering activities and potential implications for crustal permeability

Part II Static permeability

Chapter 9 Static permeability

Sediments and sedimentary rocks

Igneous and metamorphic rocks

Part II (A): Sediments and sedimentary rocks

Chapter 10 How well can we predict permeability in sedimentary basins? Deriving and evaluating porosity-permeability equations for noncemented sand and clay mixtures

Data and methods

Chapter 11 Evolution of sediment permeability during burial and subduction

Subduction zone sediments

Results and discussion

Part II (B): Igneous and metamorphic rocks

Chapter 12 Is the permeability of crystalline rock in the shallow crust related to depth, lithology, or tectonic setting?

Data sources, synthesis, and analysis

Data availability

Chapter 13 Understanding heat and groundwater flow through continental flood basalt provinces: insights gained from alternative models of permeability/depth relationships for the Columbia Plateau, United States.

Introduction

Methods of analysis and results

Chapter 14 Deep fluid circulation within crystalline basement rocks and the role of hydrologic windows in the formation of the Truth or Consequences, New Mexico low-temperature geothermal system

Field measurements

Thermal Peclet number analysis methods

Geothermometry methods

Hydrothermal modeling methods

Discussion and conclusions

Chapter 15 Hydraulic conductivity of fractured upper crust: insights from hydraulic tests in boreholes and fluid-rock interaction in crystalline basement rocks

Permeability - significance in fractured basement rocks

Permeability and fluid flow in the crust

Reactive fluid flow in the crust and its effect on permeability

Fluid flow and permeability structure of the upper crust

Summary and conclusions

Part III Dynamic permeability

Chapter 16 Dynamic permeability

Oceanic crust

Fault zones

Crustal-scale behavior

Effects of fluid injection at the scale of a reservoir or ore deposit

Part III (A): Oceanic crust

Chapter 17 Rapid generation of reaction permeability in the roots of black smoker systems, Troodos ophiolite, Cyprus

The Troodos ophiolite: Geological setting

Epidosite zones: Previous work

Part III (B): Fault zones

Chapter 18 The permeability of active subduction plate boundary faults

Fault zone architecture: inferences about hydraulic properties and behavior

Observations of fluid flow, advective transport, and simple models

Quantitative constraints on fault zone permeability from measurements and flow models

Implications and key outstanding questions.

Acknowledgments

Chapter 19 Changes in hot spring temperature and hydrogeology of the Alpine Fault hanging wall, New Zealand, induced by distal South Island earthquakes

Setting and context

Copland hot spring temperature observations

Fluid chemistry of Copland hot spring

Dynamic shaking

Permanent deformation

Chapter 20 Transient permeability in fault stepovers and rapid rates of orogenic gold deposit formation

Association between stepovers and mineralisation

Geometry and scaling properties of stepovers

Numerical analysis of the relationship between stepover geometry and fault damage

Chapter 21 Evidence for long-timescale (&gt

10 3 years) changes in hydrothermal activity induced by seismic events

Study area

Part III (C): Crustal-scale behavior

Chapter 22 The permeability of crustal rocks through the metamorphic cycle: an overview

Permeability and fluid flow in metamorphic rocks

Permeability during devolatilization

The contribution of metamorphism to the permeability structure of the crust

Chapter 23 An analytical solution for solitary porosity waves: dynamic permeability and fluidization of nonlinear viscous and viscoplastic rock

Mathematical formulation

Analytical solution for the 1D steady state

Appendix: nondimensionalization.

Chapter 24 Hypocenter migration and crustal seismic velocity distribution observed for the inland earthquake swarms induced by the 2011 Tohoku-Oki earthquake in NE Japan: implications for crustal fluid distribution and crustal permeability

Data and method

Chapter 25 Continental-scale water-level response to a large earthquake

The Wenchuan earthquake and the groundwater-level monitoring network

Coseismic groundwater-level changes induced by the Wenchuan earthquake

Mechanisms of the coseismic water-level change

Part III (D): Effects of fluid injection at the scale of a reservoir or ore-deposit

Chapter 26 Development of connected permeability in massive crystalline rocks through hydraulic fracture propagation and shearing accompanying fluid injection

Numerical approach

Experiment and numerical analysis description

Discussion on the development of connected permeability

Chapter 27 Modeling enhanced geothermal systems and the essential nature of large-scale changes in permeability at the onset of slip

The Basel fluid injection experiment

The model

Initial conditions

Modeling results

Chapter 28 Dynamics of permeability evolution in stimulated geothermal reservoirs

Methodology

Coupling strategy

Conclusion

Chapter 29 The dynamic interplay between saline fluid flow and rock permeability in magmatic-hydrothermal systems

Porphyry copper and epithermal gold deposits

Part IV Conclusion.

Chapter 30 Toward systematic characterization.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9781119166597

1119166594

9781119166573

1119166578

OCLC:

961444007