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Porosity and Permeability of Carbonate Rocks During Contact Metamorphism

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Fluid Flow and Transport in Rocks

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In recent years, penologists have increasingly used quantitative models of metamorphic fluid—rock interaction to interpret field-based observations of hydrothermal alteration. Many of these models have specifically focused on stable isotope transport and fluid-rock exchange as a key towards understanding how long-lived hydrothermal activity is recorded in rocks. With few exceptions (Norton and Taylor, 1979; Furlong, Hanson and Bowers, 1991; Jamtveit, Bucher-Nurminen and Stijfhoorn, 1992; Hanson et al. 1993; Bowman, Willett and Cook, 1994), models of large-scale hydrothermal systems have been geared towards understanding basic mechanisms of fluid—rock interaction by considering idealized, generic systems (Cathles, 1977; Norton and Cathles, 1979; Bickle and McKenzie, 1987; Baumgartner and Rumble, 1988; Lassey and Blattner, 1988; Hanson, 1992, 1995; Gerdes, Baumgartner and Person, 1995b).

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Baumgartner, L.P., Gerdes, M.L., Person, M.A., Roselle, G.T. (1997). Porosity and Permeability of Carbonate Rocks During Contact Metamorphism. 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_5

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