Gleeson Tom - Crustal permeability

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In this book we emphasize the use of permeability (k) and SI units (m2) as the measure of ease of fluid flow under unequal pressure. However hydraulic conductivity (K) and a variety of other units are used in practice. Permeability is a rock property, whereas hydraulic conductivity reflects both rock and fluid properties (fluid viscosity and density) see . The approximate conversion from k to K here assumes that the fluid is water at standard temperature and pressure. Water viscosity varies by a factor of 26 and water density by a factor of 3 between 0C and the critical point of water. Other fluids such as hydrocarbons can exhibit much larger viscosity ranges. In the table below, we show the unit conversion for 1 m2 as well as 1015 m2 which is a more realistic permeability for geological materials.

Jennifer Arrigo

1. CUAHSI,
2. Boston, MA, USA

Hiroshi Asanuma

1. Fukushima Renewable Energy Institute,
2. National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology,
3. Koriyama, Japan

Amlan Banerjee

1. Indian Statistical Institute,
2. Kolkata, India

R. Sky Bristol

1. U.S. Geological Survey,
2. Denver, CO, USA

Kurt Bucher

1. Mineralogy and Petrology,
2. University of Freiburg,
3. Freiburg, Germany

Erick R. Burns

1. U.S. Geological Survey,
2. Portland, OR, USA

Andrew Campbell

1. Department of Earth & Environmental Science,
2. New Mexico Institute of Mining and Technology,
3. Socorro, NM, USA

Johnson R. Cann

1. School of Earth and the Environment,
2. University of Leeds,
3. Leeds, UK

Michael Cardiff

1. Department of Geoscience,
2. University of Wisconsin-Madison,
3. Madison, WI, USA

Calum Chamberlain

1. School of Geography, Environment and Earth Sciences,
2. Victoria University of Wellington,
3. Wellington, New Zealand

James A. D. Connolly

1. Department of Earth Sciences,
2. Swiss Federal Institute of Technology,
3. Zurich, Switzerland

Simon C. Cox

1. GNS Science,
2. Dunedin, New Zealand

Laura Crossey

1. Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences,
2. University of New Mexico,
3. Albuquerque, NM, USA

Hugh Daigle

1. Department of Petroleum and Geosystems Engineering,
2. University of Texas at Austin,
3. Austin, TX, USA

Jacob DeAngelo

1. U.S. Geological Survey,
2. Menlo Park, CA, USA

Jean Desroches

1. Services Ptroliers Schlumberger,
2. Paris, France

Paul H. Denys

1. School of Surveying,
2. University of Otago,
3. Dunedin, New Zealand

Russell L. Detwiler

1. Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering,
2. University of California,
3. Irvine, CA, USA

Damien Duff

1. CEMI - Centre for Excellence in Mining Innovation,
2. Sudbury, ON, Canada

Erik Eberhardt

1. Geological Engineering, EOAS,
2. The University of British Columbia,
3. Vancouver, BC, Canada

Jean E. Elkhoury

1. Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering,
2. University of California,
3. Irvine, CA, USA;
4. Schlumberger-Doll Research,
5. Cambridge, MA, USA

Ying Fan

1. Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences,
2. Rutgers University,
3. New Brunswick, NJ, USA

Michael Fienen

1. U.S. Geological Survey,
2. Middleton, WI, USA

Arianne Ford

1. Centre for Exploration Targeting,
2. The University of Western Australia,
3. Crawley, WA, Australia

Carl W. Gable

1. Los Alamos National Laboratory,
2. Los Alamos, NM, USA

Valentin Gischig

1. Swiss Competence Centre on Energy Research (SCCER-SoE),
2. ETH Zurich,
3. Zurich, Switzerland

Tom Gleeson

1. Department of Civil Engineering,
2. University of Victoria,
3. Victoria, BC, Canada

David Gochis

1. NCAR,
2. Boulder, CO, USA

Kazuhiko Goto

1. Graduate School of Science and Engineering,
2. Kagoshima University,
3. Kagoshima, Japan

Akira Hasegawa