Mechanisms of strain-rate- and reaction-dependent permeability in the mid-crust of the Southern Alps: Insight from three-dimensional mechanical models

Geofluids

Volumn 9, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 287-302

  Upton, P ^a   Craw, D ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OTAGO   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

Orogenic fluid flow; Permeability structure; Southern Alps; Three dimensional mechanical modelling

Indexed keywords

BOUNDARY CONDITION; FLOW MODELING; FLUID FLOW; HYDRAULIC CONDUCTIVITY; MAGNETOTELLURIC METHOD; OROGENY; PERMEABILITY; RHEOLOGY; STRAIN RATE; THREE-DIMENSIONAL MODELING;

AUSTRALASIA; NEW ZEALAND; SOUTH ISLAND; SOUTHERN ALPS;

EID: 70449698332     PISSN: 14688115     EISSN: 14688123     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1468-8123.2009.00257.x     Document Type: Article

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