Groundwater in geologic processes

Abstract

Hydrogeologists and geologists are now actively exploring the role of subsurface fluids in such fundamental geologic processes as crustal heat transfer, hydrocarbon migration, earthquakes, diagenesis, and metamorphism. This publication first develops the basic theory of groundwater motion, solute transport, and heat transport. It then applies flow and transport theory in a generalized geological context and focuses on particular geologic processes and environments.