
Category: Groundwater – geofluids


19th century experiments that helped quantify the nature of fluid flow, surface waves, and bedforms.

The changing fortunes of fault permeability and fluid flow Faults can act as conduits or

Fluid flow, like rocks and sediments, define sedimentary basins There is a complex interweave

Fluid flow at lithospheric scales There’s not much that goes on in sedimentary basins that

Advective fluid flow: The flow of fluids through a porous medium; in this case only

Companion glossaries Ablation: The removal of ice and snow by melting, evaporation, wind erosion, sublimation

Henry Darcy’s pivotal experiments with sand-filled tubes (in 1856) established an empirical relationship between hydraulic

This post focuses on the initiation and growth of diapirs This is part of the

This post focuses on the mechanics of salt flow and diapirism This is part of