Permeability reduction of a natural fracture under net dissolution by hydrothermal fluids

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 30, Issue 20, 2003, Pages

  Polak, A ^a   Elsworth, D ^a   Yasuhara, H ^a   Grader, A S ^a   Halleck, P M ^a  

^a PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DISSOLUTION; FRACTURE; IMAGING TECHNIQUES; MECHANICAL PERMEABILITY; PRESSURE DROP; TRANSPORT PROPERTIES; X RAYS; COMPUTERIZED TOMOGRAPHY;

HYDRAULIC APERTURE; MASS FLUX; ENVIRONMENTAL CONDITIONS; FLOW-THROUGH TESTS; FLUID PRESSURE DROP; FRACTURE PERMEABILITY; HYDROTHERMAL FLUIDS; MINERAL DISSOLUTION; ORDERS OF MAGNITUDE; PERMEABILITY REDUCTION;

GEOLOGY; TRANSPORT PROPERTIES;

DISSOLUTION; FRACTURE FLOW; FRACTURED MEDIUM; HYDROTHERMAL FLUID; PERMEABILITY; PRESSURE SOLUTION; REACTIVE TRANSPORT;

EID: 1242322449     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2003GL017575     Document Type: Article

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