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A user-friendly, thorough introduction to quantitative modelling of sedimentary basins, illustrated throughout with real-world examples, applications and test exercises.
List of contents
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.
About the author
Magnus Wangen has worked in the field of sedimentary basin-modelling since the late 1980s - conducting research on a wide range of topics. He obtained a Dr Scient. degree in applied mathematics from Universitetet i Oslo in 1993 with a thesis on the modelling of heat- and fluid-flow in sedimentary basins. Since the early 1990s he has developed two complementary basin simulators used by the oil industry. The first simulator deals with heat flow on a lithospheric scale, fluid flow, compaction, and overpressure in sedimentary basins through the geo-history, while the second simulates hydrocarbon generation and migration. He is currently a research scientist at the Institute for Energy Technology in Norway. This book is based on a course in basin analysis that Dr Wangen taught for a number of years while an Assistant Professor at the University Graduate Center (an affiliate of Universitetet i Oslo at Kjeller).
Summary
A thorough introduction to the physical and mechanical basis for the modelling of sedimentary basins, introducing basic, state-of-the-art models and illustrated throughout with real-world examples, applications and test exercises. This book offers a user-friendly resource for graduate students, academic researchers and oil industry professionals.
