Geological Fluid Dynamics: Sub-surface Flow And Reactions

This page intentionally left blank GE O L O G I C A L FL U I D DYNAM I CS Sub-surface Flow and Reactions Owen Phillips’s textbook, Flow and Reactions in Permeable Rocks, published in 1991, became a classic in the field of geological fluid dynamics. This book is its long-awaited successor. In the intervening years, significant advances have been made in 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. Owen M. Phillips is a Fellow of the Royal Society and a member of the US National Academy of Engineering. He has held academic posts at Cambridge University and the Johns Hopkins University. He was awarded the Sverdrup Gold Medal of the American Meteorological Society for his contributions to oceanography, and a fellowship in the American Geophysical Union for his contributions to geological fluid dynamics. His Last Chance Energy Book, published in 1979, anticipated the first global energy crisis of the 1980s, while his recent research has been on sub-surface aquifer flows, the dispersal of contaminants and flow-controlled reactions in rocks. He has two other publications with Cambridge University Press – The Dynamics of the Upper Ocean (1966), which was awarded the Adams Prize from Cambridge University, and Flow and Reactions in Permeable Rocks (1991). G E O L O G I C A L F L U I D DY NA M I C S Sub-surface Flow and Reactions O. M. PHILLIPS, FRS Decker Professor Emeritus at the Johns Hopkins University CAMBRIDGE UNIVERSITY PRESS Cambridge, New York, Melbourne, Madrid, Cape Town, Singapore, São Paulo Cambridge University Press The Edinburgh Building, Cambridge CB2 8RU, UK Published in the United States of America by Cambridge University Press, New York www.cambridge.org Information on this title: www.cambridge.org/9780521865555 © O. M. Phillips 2009 This publication is in copyright. Subject to statutory exception and to the provision of relevant collective licensing agreements, no reproduction of any part may take place without the written permission of Cambridge University Press. First published in print format 2009 ISBN-13 978-0-511-50675-8 eBook (EBL) ISBN-13 978-0-521-86555-5 hardback Cambridge University Press has no responsibility for the persiste