Geological fluid dynamics : sub-surface flow and reactions / O.M. Phillips.

Successor to the author's Flow in permeable rocks (1991).

Includes bibliographical references (pages 269-278) and index.

1. Introduction -- 2. The basic principles -- 2.1. Pores and fractures -- 2.2. Geometrical characteristics -- 2.3. The transport velocity and mass conservation -- 2.4. Darcy's law -- 2.5. Mechanical energy balances -- 2.6. Two theorems -- 2.7. The thermal energy balance -- 2.8. Dissolved species balance -- 2.9. Equations of state -- 2.10. Dispersion -- 3. Patterns of flow -- 3.1. Flow in uniform permeable media -- 3.2. Three-dimensional surface aquifer flow -- 3.3. Dispersion and transport of marked fluid -- 3.4. Layered media -- 3.5. Fracture-matrix or "crack and block" media -- 3.6. Flow transients -- 4. Flows with buoyancy variations -- 4.1. The occurrence of thermally driven flows -- 4.2. Buoyancy and the rotation vector -- 4.3. General properties of buoyancy-driven flows -- 4.4. Steady low Rayleigh number circulations -- 4.5. Intermediate and high Rayleigh number plumes -- 4.6. Salinity-driven flows -- 4.7. Thermal instabilities -- 4.8. Thermo-haline circulations -- 4.9. Instability of fronts -- 5. Patterns of reaction with flow -- 5.1. Simple reaction types -- 5.2. An outline of flow-controlled reaction scenarios -- 5.3. Leaching or deposition of a mineral constituent -- 5.4. The isothermal reaction front scenario -- 5.5. The gradient reaction scenario -- 5.6. The mixing zone scenario -- 5.7. Isotherm-following reactions -- 5.8. Paleo-convection and dolomite formation in the Latemar Massif -- 5.9. Distributions of mineral alteration in Mississippi Valley-type deposits -- 6. Extensions and examples -- 6.1. Extensions -- 6.2. Examples.

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This book is the long-awaited successor to Owen Phillips's classic textbook, Flow and Reactions in Permeable Rocks, published in 1991. In the intervening 18 years between the two, significant advances have been made to our understanding of subterranean flow, especially through the vast amount of research into underground storage of nuclear waste and aquifer pollution. This new book integrates and extends these modern ideas and techniques and applies them to the physics and chemistry of sub-surface flows in water-saturated, sandy and rocky media. It describes essential scientific concepts and tools for hydrologists and public health ecologists concerned with present day flow and transport, and also for geologists who interpret present day patterns of mineralization in terms of fluid flow in the distant past. The book is ideal for graduate students and professionals in hydrology, water resources, and aqueous geochemistry.

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