Geology and Water An introduction to fluid mechanics for geologists
Water is one of the world's threatened resources: it is also a substance of importance in Geology. For some years I have felt the need for a book that sets out the fundamentals of fluid mechanics, written for geologists rather than engineers. The efforts to repair my own deficiencies in this re...
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Dordrecht
Springer Netherlands
1981, 1981
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| Edition: | 1st ed. 1981 |
| Series: | Developments in Applied Earth Studies
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| Collection: | Springer Book Archives -2004 - Collection details see MPG.ReNa |
Table of Contents:
- 1. Introduction: Liquids at rest
- Statics
- Buoyancy
- Liquid-filled porous solids in static equilibrium
- Dimensional analysis
- 2. Liquids in motion
- Bernoulli’s theorem
- Pipe flow
- Dimensionless numbers
- Pressure
- Stoke’s law
- Note on Poiseuille’s experiments
- 3. Liquid flow through porous sands
- Henry Darcy’s experiments
- The coefficient of permeability
- The limits of Darcy’s law
- 4. The aquifer and fields of flow
- Fields of flow
- Producing water well
- Natural sinks
- 5. Aquifers: Springs, rivers, and man-made drainage
- Water from the Danube to the Rhine
- Oceanic islands and coastal aquifers
- Arid regions: The qanat of Iran
- The Great Artesian Basin
- 6. Movement of pore water, and abnormally high pore pressures
- Compaction of sediment
- Pore pressures
- Other possible causes of or contributors to abnormally-high pore pressures
- Pore-water migration in sedimentary basins
- 7. Role of pore water in deformation of sedimentary basins
- Pre-orogenic deformation
- Orogenic deformation
- 8. Pore water and sliding
- Gravitational sliding
- Effect of sea-level
- 9. Conclusion
- Faults and water movement
- Flow of two immiscible liquids in porous sediments
- Appendix. Review of commonly-quoted works on Darcy’s lawDiscussion
- Discussion
- Conversions
- Postscript
- Author index