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.
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.
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).
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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.
