Presenting a rigorous treatment of the physical and mechanical basis for the modelling of sedimentary basins, this book supplies geoscientists with practical tools for creating their own models. It begins with a thorough grounding inproperties of porous media, linear elasticity, continuum mechanics and rock compressibility. Chapters on heat flow, subsidence, rheology, flexure and gravity consider sedimentary basins in the context of the Earth's lithosphere, and the book concludes with coverage of pore space cementation, compaction and fluid flow. The volume introduces basic, state-of-the-art models and demonstrateshow to reproduce results using tools like MATLAB and Octave. Main equations are derived from first principles, and their basic solutions obtained and then applied. Separate notes sections supply more technical details, and the text is illustrated throughout with real-world examples, applications and test exercises. This is an accessible introduction to quantitative modelling of basins for graduate students, researchers and oil industry professionals. INDICE: Preface; Acknowledgements; 1. Preliminaries; 2. Properties of porous media; 3. Linear elasticity and continuum mechanics; 4. Compressibility of rocks and sediments; 5. Burial histories; 6. Heat flow; 7. Subsidence; 8. Rheology: fracture and flow; 9. Flexure of the lithosphere; 10. Gravity and gravity anomalies; 11. Quartz cementation of sandstones; 12. Overpressure and compaction: exact solutions; 13. Fluid flow: basic equations; 14. Fluid flow: examples; 15. Wells; 16. Appendix: Fourier series, the discrete Fourier transform and the fast Fourier transform; References; Index.
- ISBN: 978-0-521-76125-3
- Editorial: Cambridge University
- Encuadernacion: Cartoné
- Páginas: 544
- Fecha Publicación: 14/01/2010
- Nº Volúmenes: 1
- Idioma: Inglés