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Fluid Flow and Transport in Rocks pp 15–34Cite as

Lithological Control on Fluid Flow in Sedimentary Basins

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Recently there has been a growing interest in modelling fluid flow in sedimentary basins (Parnell, 1994). The main reason is the increasing realization that the capacity of water to transport heat and solids in solution must be quantified and that the fluid pressure conditions in basins need to be constrained while the relevance of subsurface pressure both to drilling safety and to petroleum expulsion and migration has led to increasing interest in overpressure (Fertel, Chapman and Hotz, 1994).

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Bjørlykke, K. (1997). Lithological Control on Fluid Flow in Sedimentary Basins. In: Jamtveit, B., Yardley, B.W.D. (eds) Fluid Flow and Transport in Rocks. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-009-1533-6_2

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