Note: Cover -- Title Page -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Contents -- List of contributors -- About the companion websites -- Chapter 1 Introduction -- Motivation and background -- Nomenclature: porosity, permeability, hydraulic conductivity, and relative permeability -- Static versus dynamic permeability -- Contents of this book -- Data structures to integrate and extend existing knowledge -- Acknowledgments -- Chapter 2 DigitalCrust - a 4D data system of material properties for transforming research on crustal fluid flow -- Motivation -- Data integration to transform science -- The DigitalCrust vision -- An action plan -- Concluding remarks -- Acknowledgments -- Part I The physics of permeability -- Chapter 3 The physics of permeability -- Chapter 4 A pore-scale investigation of the dynamic response of saturated porous media to transient stresses -- Introduction -- Background -- Methods -- Results -- Discussion -- Conclusions -- Acknowledgments -- Chapter 5 Flow of concentrated suspensions through fractures: small variations in solid concentration cause significant in-plane velocity variations -- Introduction -- Overview of experiments -- Image analysis -- Experimental results -- Computational simulations -- Concluding remarks -- Acknowledgments -- Supporting information -- Chapter 6 Normal stress-induced permeability hysteresis of a fracture in a granite cylinder -- Introduction -- Theoretical aspects -- Experimental procedures -- Experimental procedures and results -- Concluding remarks -- Acknowledgements -- Chapter 7 Linking microearthquakes to fracture permeability evolution -- Introduction -- Channeling flows through heterogeneous fractures at laboratory scale -- Channeling flows through heterogeneous fractures beyond laboratory scale -- Conclusions -- Acknowledgments. , Chapter 8 Fractured rock stress-permeability relationships from in situ data and effects of temperature and chemical-mechanical couplings -- Introduction -- Fractured rock stress-permeability relation and sample size effect -- In situ block and ultra-large core experiments -- Borehole injection tests -- Model calibration against excavation-induced permeability changes -- Depth-dependent permeability of shallow bedrock -- Model calibration against the Yucca Mountain drift scale test -- Thermal and chemically mediated mechanical changes -- Application to geoengineering activities and potential implications for crustal permeability -- Concluding remarks -- Acknowledgments -- Part II Static permeability -- Chapter 9 Static permeability -- Sediments and sedimentary rocks -- Igneous and metamorphic rocks -- Part II (A): Sediments and sedimentary rocks -- Chapter 10 How well can we predict permeability in sedimentary basins? Deriving and evaluating porosity-permeability equations for noncemented sand and clay mixtures -- Introduction -- Data and methods -- Results -- Conclusions -- Acknowledgments -- Supporting information -- Chapter 11 Evolution of sediment permeability during burial and subduction -- Introduction -- Subduction zone sediments -- Methods -- Results and discussion -- Conclusions -- Acknowledgments -- Supporting information -- Part II (B): Igneous and metamorphic rocks -- Chapter 12 Is the permeability of crystalline rock in the shallow crust related to depth, lithology, or tectonic setting? -- Introduction -- Data sources, synthesis, and analysis -- Results and discussion -- Conclusions -- Data availability -- Acknowledgments -- Chapter 13 Understanding heat and groundwater flow through continental flood basalt provinces: insights gained from alternative models of permeability/depth relationships for the Columbia Plateau, United States. , Introduction -- Background -- Methods of analysis and results -- Results -- Discussion -- Conclusions -- Acknowledgments -- Chapter 14 Deep fluid circulation within crystalline basement rocks and the role of hydrologic windows in the formation of the Truth or Consequences, New Mexico low-temperature geothermal system -- Introduction -- Field measurements -- Thermal Peclet number analysis methods -- Geothermometry methods -- Hydrothermal modeling methods -- Results -- Discussion and conclusions -- Acknowledgments -- Chapter 15 Hydraulic conductivity of fractured upper crust: insights from hydraulic tests in boreholes and fluid-rock interaction in crystalline basement rocks -- Introduction -- Permeability - significance in fractured basement rocks -- Permeability and fluid flow in the crust -- Reactive fluid flow in the crust and its effect on permeability -- Fluid flow and permeability structure of the upper crust -- Summary and conclusions -- Acknowledgments -- Part III Dynamic permeability -- Chapter 16 Dynamic permeability -- Oceanic crust -- Fault zones -- Crustal-scale behavior -- Effects of fluid injection at the scale of a reservoir or ore deposit -- Part III (A): Oceanic crust -- Chapter 17 Rapid generation of reaction permeability in the roots of black smoker systems, Troodos ophiolite, Cyprus -- Introduction -- The Troodos ophiolite: Geological setting -- Epidosite zones: Previous work -- Results -- Discussion -- Conclusions -- Acknowledgements -- Part III (B): Fault zones -- Chapter 18 The permeability of active subduction plate boundary faults -- Introduction -- Fault zone architecture: inferences about hydraulic properties and behavior -- Observations of fluid flow, advective transport, and simple models -- Quantitative constraints on fault zone permeability from measurements and flow models -- Implications and key outstanding questions. , Acknowledgments -- Chapter 19 Changes in hot spring temperature and hydrogeology of the Alpine Fault hanging wall, New Zealand, induced by distal South Island earthquakes -- Introduction -- Setting and context -- Copland hot spring temperature observations -- Fluid chemistry of Copland hot spring -- Dynamic shaking -- Permanent deformation -- Discussion -- Summary and conclusions -- Acknowledgements -- Supporting information -- Chapter 20 Transient permeability in fault stepovers and rapid rates of orogenic gold deposit formation -- Introduction -- Association between stepovers and mineralisation -- Geometry and scaling properties of stepovers -- Numerical analysis of the relationship between stepover geometry and fault damage -- Discussion -- Conclusions -- Acknowledgements -- Supporting information -- Chapter 21 Evidence for long-timescale (> -- 10 3 years) changes in hydrothermal activity induced by seismic events -- Introduction -- Study area -- Methods -- Results -- Discussion and conclusions -- Acknowledgments -- Part III (C): Crustal-scale behavior -- Chapter 22 The permeability of crustal rocks through the metamorphic cycle: an overview -- Introduction -- Permeability and fluid flow in metamorphic rocks -- Permeability during devolatilization -- The contribution of metamorphism to the permeability structure of the crust -- Acknowledgements -- Chapter 23 An analytical solution for solitary porosity waves: dynamic permeability and fluidization of nonlinear viscous and viscoplastic rock -- Introduction -- Mathematical formulation -- Analytical solution for the 1D steady state -- Discussion -- Concluding remarks -- Acknowledgments -- Appendix: nondimensionalization. , Chapter 24 Hypocenter migration and crustal seismic velocity distribution observed for the inland earthquake swarms induced by the 2011 Tohoku-Oki earthquake in NE Japan: implications for crustal fluid distribution and crustal permeability -- Introduction -- Data and method -- Results -- Discussion -- Conclusions -- Acknowledgments -- Chapter 25 Continental-scale water-level response to a large earthquake -- Introduction -- The Wenchuan earthquake and the groundwater-level monitoring network -- Coseismic groundwater-level changes induced by the Wenchuan earthquake -- Mechanisms of the coseismic water-level change -- Discussion -- Conclusions -- Acknowledgments -- Supporting information -- Part III (D): Effects of fluid injection at the scale of a reservoir or ore-deposit -- Chapter 26 Development of connected permeability in massive crystalline rocks through hydraulic fracture propagation and shearing accompanying fluid injection -- Introduction -- Numerical approach -- Experiment and numerical analysis description -- Results -- Discussion on the development of connected permeability -- Conclusions -- Acknowledgments -- Chapter 27 Modeling enhanced geothermal systems and the essential nature of large-scale changes in permeability at the onset of slip -- Introduction -- The Basel fluid injection experiment -- The model -- Initial conditions -- Modeling results -- Discussion -- Conclusions -- Acknowledgments -- Chapter 28 Dynamics of permeability evolution in stimulated geothermal reservoirs -- Introduction -- Methodology -- Coupling strategy -- Results -- Conclusion -- Chapter 29 The dynamic interplay between saline fluid flow and rock permeability in magmatic-hydrothermal systems -- Introduction -- Porphyry copper and epithermal gold deposits -- Methods -- Results -- Discussion -- Conclusions -- Acknowledgments -- Part IV Conclusion. , Chapter 30 Toward systematic characterization.