Geochemical self-organization
This monograph offers an interdisciplinary approach to the analysis of geological systems which become spatially organized through the mediation of chemical processes. The treatment is based on a mathematical approach. The intended readership includes advanced geology students.
Print Book, English, 1994
Oxford University Press ; Clarendon Press, New York, Oxford, 1994
XV, 411 p. : il. ; 24 cm.
9780195044768, 0195044762
911287910
Introduction. 1: Feedback, instability, and bifurcation. 2: Oscillatory zoning in crystals. 3: Reaction-transport modeling. 4: Flow-driven reaction fronts. 5: Dissipative structures at reaction fronts. 6: Reaction-front morphology. 7: Liesegang Banding. 8: Unstable coursening fronts and precipitate patterning. 9: Mechano-chemical coupling. 10: Metamorphic differentiation. 11: Diagenetic differentiated mechano-chemical structures. 12: Geodes, concretiobs, agates, and orbicules. 13: Reaction-driven advection. 14: Compartmentation of a sedimentary basin. 15: Oscillatory fluid flow through the fracturing and healing cycle in a compartmented basin