Fluid Flow in Sedimentary Basins and Aquifers (Geological Society Special Publication 34)

Cover (small)......Page 1 Front matter......Page 2 Fluid Flow in Sedimentary Basins and Aquifers......Page 4 ISBN 0-632-01804-6......Page 5 Contents......Page 6 Preface......Page 8 Introduction......Page 10 Section 1: Fluid Flow in Compacting Basins......Page 12 Fluid flow in sedimentary basins: a geologist's perspective......Page 14 Fluid flow due to sediment loading an application to the Arabian Gulf region......Page 30 Section 2: Fluid Flow in the Western Canadian Sedimentary Basin......Page 40 Dynamic basin analysis: an integrated approach with large data bases......Page 42 Post-Palaeocene evolution of regional groundwater flow systems and their relation to petroleum accumulations, Taber Area, southern Alberta, Canada......Page 56 Some aspects of the thermal regime and hydrodynamics of the western Canadian sedimentary basin......Page 90 Ancient fluid flow within foreland terrains......Page 98 Section 3: Fluid Flow in United Kingdom Groundwater Basins......Page 114 Regional groundwater flow in sedimentary basins in the U.K.......Page 116 Fluid flow and diagenesis in the East Midlands Triassic sandstone aquifer......Page 138 Fluid flow in the Chalk of England......Page 152 Thermal aspects of the East Midlands aquifer system......Page 168 Section 4: Fluid Flow in Low Permeability and Fractured Media......Page 182 The role of low-permeability rocks in regional flow......Page 184 Flow and flow mechanisms in crystalline rock......Page 196 The flow of water and displacement of hydrocarbons in fractured chalk reservoirs......Page 212 Index......Page 230 Back cover......Page 242